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In 2008, M. Marshall settled a long-standing open problem by showing that if f(x,y) is a polynomial that is non-negative on the strip [0,1] x R, then there exist sums of squares s(x,y) and t(x,y) such that f(x,y) = s(x,y) + (x - x^2)…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Ha Nguyen , Victoria Powers

We propose a solution approach for the problem (P) of minimizing an unconstrained binary polynomial optimization problem. We call this method PQCR (Polynomial Quadratic Convex Reformulation). The resolution is based on a 3-phase method. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Sourour Elloumi , Amélie Lambert , Arnaud Lazare

Optimizing over the cone of nonnegative polynomials, and its dual counterpart, optimizing over the space of moments that admit a representing measure, are fundamental problems that appear in many different applications from engineering and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-20 Georgina Hall

Polynomial quantified entailments with existentially and universally quantified variables arise in many problems of verification and program analysis. We present PolyQEnt which is a tool for solving polynomial quantified entailments in…

This article deals with a quantitative aspect of Hilbert's seventeenth problem: producing a collection of real polynomials in two variables of degree 8 in one variable which are positive but are not a sum of three squares of rational…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-13 Valéry Mahé

Given rational univariate polynomials f and g such that gcd(f, g) and f / gcd(f, g) are relatively prime, we show that g is non-negative on all the real roots of f if and only if g is a sum of squares of rational polynomials modulo f. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Teresa Krick , Bernard Mourrain , Agnes Szanto

Hilbert's 17th problem asks that whether every nonnegative polynomial can be a sum of squares of rational functions. It has been answered affirmatively by Artin. However, the question as to whether a given nonnegative polynomial is a sum of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Jianquan Ge , Zizhou Tang

Hilbert proved in 1888 that a positive semi-definite (PSD) homogeneous quartic polynomial of three variables always can be expressed as the sum of squares (SOS) of three quadratic polynomials, and a psd homogeneous quartic polynomial of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Chunfeng Cui , Liqun Qi , Yi Xu

We present a necessary and sufficient condition for a cubic polynomial to be positive for all positive reals. We identify the set where the cubic polynomial is nonnegative but not all positive for all positive reals, and explicitly give the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Liqun Qi , Yisheng Song , Xinzhen Zhang

We provide a specific representation of convex polynomials nonnegative on a convex (not necessarily compact) basic closed semi-algebraic subset K of Rn. Namely, they belong to a specific subset of the quadratic module generated by the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-09 Jean B. Lasserre

The question how to certify non-negativity of a polynomial function lies at the heart of Real Algebra and also has important applications to Optimization. In this article we investigate the question of non-negativity in the context of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Paul Görlach , Cordian Riener , Tillmann Weißer

We study the problem of decomposing a polynomial $p$ into a sum of $r$ squares by minimizing a quadratically penalized objective $f_p(\mathbf{u}) = \left\lVert \sum_{i=1}^r u_i^2 - p\right\lVert^2$. This objective is nonconvex and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Benoît Legat , Chenyang Yuan , Pablo A. Parrilo

We calculate admissible values of r such that a square-free polynomial with integer coefficients, no fixed prime divisor and irreducible factors of degree at most 3 takes infinitely many values that are a product of at most r distinct…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Andrew Booker , Tim Browning

The difficulty in exploring potential energy surfaces, which are nonconvex, stems from the presence of many local minima, typically separated by high barriers and often disconnected in configurational space. We obtain the global minimum on…

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We present a Hilbert space geometric approach to the problem of characterizing the positive bivariate trigonometric polynomials that can be represented as the square of a two variable polynomial possessing a certain stability requirement,…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Jeffrey S. Geronimo , Plamen Iliev , Greg Knese

Optimizing and certifying the positivity of polynomials are fundamental primitives across mathematics and engineering applications, from dynamical systems to operations research. However, solving these problems in practice requires large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hannah Lawrence , Mitchell Tong Harris

We give new algorithms based on the sum-of-squares method for tensor decomposition. Our results improve the best known running times from quasi-polynomial to polynomial for several problems, including decomposing random overcomplete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Tengyu Ma , Jonathan Shi , David Steurer

Polynomial optimization problems represent a wide class of optimization problems, with a large number of real-world applications. Current approaches for polynomial optimization, such as the sum of squares (SOS) method, rely on large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Dick den Hertog , Thodoris Koukouvinos

We state a kind of Euclidian division theorem: given a polynomial P(x) and a divisor d of the degree of P, there exist polynomials h(x),Q(x),R(x) such that P(x) = h(Q(x)) +R(x), with deg h=d. Under some conditions h,Q,R are unique, and Q is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-12 Arnaud Bodin