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Dimensions of faces of Gram spectrahedra

Algebraic Geometry 2020-08-25 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

Let fΣn,2df\in\Sigma_{n,2d} be a sum of squares. The Gram spectrahedron of ff is a compact, convex set that parametrizes all sum of squares representations of ff. Let FGram(f)F\subseteq\mathrm{Gram}(f) be a face of its Gram spectrahedron. We are interested in upper bounds for the dimension of FF. We show that this upper bound can be determined combinatorially. As it turns out, if the degree is large enough, a face realizing this bound, is a face of a Gram spectrahedron such that the form ff is singular. Thus we are also interested in finding better bounds whenever the form ff is smooth.

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@article{arxiv.2008.10315,
  title  = {Dimensions of faces of Gram spectrahedra},
  author = {Julian Vill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10315},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages