Descent problem for certificate of non-negativity on semi-algebraic sets
Algebraic Geometry
2025-08-12 v1 Commutative Algebra
Abstract
Let be a subfield of and let be a basic closed semi-algebraic set in with . Let be the natural choice of generators of . We show that if is on , then can be written as where , and . In other words, the preordering of is saturated. In case , this result is due to Kuhlmann and Marshall. As an application, we prove that if is compact, then . In other words, the quadratic module of is saturated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.07060,
title = {Descent problem for certificate of non-negativity on semi-algebraic sets},
author = {Manoj K. Keshari and Debapriya Ojha and Niladri Sekhar Patra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.07060},
year = {2025}
}
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