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Rational certificates of non-negativity on semialgebraic subsets of cylinders

Algebraic Geometry 2024-01-09 v2

Abstract

Let g1,,gsR[X1,,Xn,Y]g_1,\dots, g_s \in \mathbb{R}[X_1,\dots, X_n,Y] and S={(xˉ,y)Rn+1g1(xˉ,y)0,,gs(xˉ,y)0}S = \{(\bar{x},y)\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1} \mid g_1(\bar{x},y) \ge 0, \dots, g_s(\bar{x}, y) \ge 0\} be a non-empty, possibly unbounded, subset of a cylinder in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1}. Let fR[X1,,Xn,Y]f \in \mathbb{R}[X_1, \dots, X_n, Y] be a polynomial which is positive on SS. We prove that, under certain additional assumptions, for any non-constant polynomial qR[Y]q \in \mathbb{R}[Y] which is positive on R\mathbb{R}, there is a certificate of the non-negativity of ff on SS given by a rational function having as numerator a polynomial in the quadratic module generated by g1,,gsg_1, \dots, g_s and as denominator a power of qq.

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@article{arxiv.2305.01636,
  title  = {Rational certificates of non-negativity on semialgebraic subsets of cylinders},
  author = {Gabriela Jeronimo and Daniel Perrucci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01636},
  year   = {2024}
}