Nonnegativity of signomials with Newton simplex over $\mathcal{A}$-convex sets
Abstract
We study a class of signomials whose positive support is the set of vertices of a simplex and which may have several negative support points in the simplex. Various groups of authors have provided an exact characterization for the global nonnegativity of a signomial in this class in terms of circuit signomials and that characterization provides a tractable nonnegativity test. We generalize this characterization to the constrained nonnegativity over a set under an additional convexity precondition in the exponential moment space. This provides a tractable nonnegativity test over for the class in terms of a power cone program. Our proof methods rely on a variant of the convex cone of constrained SAGE signomials (sums of arithmetic-geometric exponentials) and the duality theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.10302,
title = {Nonnegativity of signomials with Newton simplex over $\mathcal{A}$-convex sets},
author = {Gennadiy Averkov and Jonas Ellwanger and Thorsten Theobald and Timo de Wolff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.10302},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
16 pages, corrected version with substantial modifications, Theorem 1.2 in the former version was not correct and has changed, new coauthor