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In this work we establish a connection between copositivity, that is, nonnegativity on the positive orthant, of sparse real Laurent polynomials and discriminants. Specifically, we consider Laurent polynomials in the positive orthant with…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Elisenda Feliu , Joan Ferrer , Máté L. Telek

We introduce and study a cone which consists of a class of generalized polynomial functions and which provides a common framework for recent non-negativity certificates of polynomials in sparse settings. Specifically, this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Lukas Katthän , Helen Naumann , Thorsten Theobald

Using the dual cone of sums of nonnegative circuits (SONC), we provide a relaxation of the global optimization problem to minimize an exponential sum and, as a special case, a multivariate real polynomial. Our approach builds on two key…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Mareike Dressler , Janin Heuer , Helen Naumann , Timo de Wolff

In the smallest cases where there exist nonnegative polynomials that are not sums of squares we present a complete explanation of this distinction. The fundamental reason that the cone of sums of squares is strictly contained in the cone of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-09 Grigoriy Blekherman

In an earlier article [3], we presented an algorithm that can be used to rigorously check whether a specific cosine or sine polynomial is nonnegative in a given interval or not. The algorithm proves to be an indispensable tool in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Man Kam Kwong

In this article we combine two developments in polynomial optimization. On the one hand, we consider nonnegativity certificates based on sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials, which were recently introduced by the second and the third…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Mareike Dressler , Sadik Iliman , Timo de Wolff

We develop a general and unconditional framework for certifying the global nonnegativity of multivariate integer polynomials; based on rewriting them as sum of squares modulo their gradient ideals. We remove the two structural assumptions…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Matías R Bender , Khazhgali Kozhasov , Elias Tsigaridas , Chaoping Zhu

This paper presents a novel algorithm for constructing a sum-of-squares (SOS) decomposition for positive semi-definite polynomials with rational coefficients. Unlike previous methods that typically yield SOS decompositions with…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zhenbing Zeng , Yong Huang , Lu Yang , Yongsheng Rao

We provide a complete and explicit characterization of the exposed extreme rays of the cone of sums of nonnegative circuit (SONC) polynomials. The criterion we derive is purely combinatorial and depends only on the existence of certain…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Mareike Dressler , Hongzhi Liao , Vera Roshchina

We study separable plus quadratic (SPQ) polynomials, i.e., polynomials that are the sum of univariate polynomials in different variables and a quadratic polynomial. Motivated by the fact that nonnegative separable and nonnegative quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Cemil Dibek , Georgina Hall

A polynomial that is a sum of squares (SOS) of other polynomials is evidently positive. The converse is not true, there are positive polynomials which are not SOS. This note focuses on the problem of certifying, in exact arithmetic, that a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Didier Henrion

We prove decomposition theorems for sparse positive (semi)definite polynomial matrices that can be viewed as sparsity-exploiting versions of the Hilbert--Artin, Reznick, Putinar, and Putinar--Vasilescu Positivstellens\"atze. First, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi

Ternary sextics and quaternary quartics are the smallest cases where there exist nonnegative polynomials that are not sums of squares (SOS). A complete classification of the difference between these cones was given by G. Blekherman via…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-02 Sadik Iliman , Timo de Wolff

We introduce the concept of disjunctive sum of squares for certifying nonnegativity of polynomials. Unlike the popular sum of squares approach where nonnegativity is certified by a single algebraic identity, the disjunctive sum of squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Sanjeeb Dash , Yixuan Hua , Bartolomeo Stellato

Certifying nonnegativity of polynomials is a well-known NP-hard problem with direct applications spanning non-convex optimization, control, robotics, and beyond. A sufficient condition for nonnegativity is the Sum of Squares (SOS) property,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Nico Pelleriti , Christoph Spiegel , Shiwei Liu , David Martínez-Rubio , Max Zimmer , Sebastian Pokutta

Optimization over non-negative polynomials is fundamental for nonlinear systems analysis and control. We investigate the relation between three tractable relaxations for optimizing over sparse non-negative polynomials: sparse sum-of-squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Yang Zheng , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Antonis Papachristodoulou

In this paper we study the representation of Morse polynomial functions which are nonnegative on a compact basic closed semi-algebraic set in $\mathbb R^n$, and having only finitely many zeros in this set. Following C. Bivi\`{a}-Ausina, we…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Công-Trình Lê

We provide two hybrid numeric-symbolic optimization algorithms, computing exact sums of nonnegative circuits (SONC) and sums of arithmetic-geometric-exponentials (SAGE) decompositions. Moreover, we provide a hybrid numeric-symbolic decision…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Victor Magron , Henning Seidler , Timo de Wolff

To prove that a polynomial is nonnegative on R^n one can try to show that it is a sum of squares of polynomials (SOS). The latter problem is now known to be reducible to a semidefinite programming (SDP) computation much faster than…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-27 J. Maurice Rojas , Swaminathan Sethuraman

We describe a new approach to certifying the global nonnegativity of multivariate polynomials by solving hyperbolic optimization problems---a class of convex optimization problems that generalize semidefinite programs. We show how to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-07 James Saunderson