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This paper establishes new Positivstellens\"atze for polynomials that are positive on sets defined by polynomial matrix inequalities (PMIs). We extend the classical Handelman and Krivine-Stengle theorems from the scalar inequality setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Feng Guo

We prove that, under some additional assumption, Putinar's Positivstellensatz holds on cylinders of type $S \times {\mathbb R}$ with $S = \{x \in {\mathbb R}^n | g_1(x) \ge 0, ..., g_s(x) \ge 0\}$ such that the quadratic module generated by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Paula Escorcielo , Daniel Perrucci

Let X be a finite set of points in R^n. A polynomial p nonnegative on X can be written as a sum of squares of rational functions modulo the vanishing ideal I(X). From the point of view of applications, such as polynomial optimization, we…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Grigoriy Blekherman , João Gouveia , James Pfeiffer

Recently, the second and the third author developed sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials (SONC) as a new certificate of nonnegativity for real polynomials, which is independent of sums of squares. In this article we show that the SONC…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Mareike Dressler , Sadik Iliman , Timo de Wolff

A variant of the Archimedean Positivstellensatz is proved which is based on Archimedean semirings or quadratic modules of generating subalgebras. It allows one to obtain representations of strictly positive polynomials on compact…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Konrad Schmüdgen

Consider the problem of minimizing a polynomial $f$ over a compact semialgebraic set ${\mathbf{X} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n}$. Lasserre introduces hierarchies of semidefinite programs to approximate this hard optimization problem, based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Lucas Slot

We consider the sum-of-squares hierarchy of approximations for the problem of minimizing a polynomial $f$ over the boolean hypercube $\mathbb{B}^{n}=\{0,1\}^n$. This hierarchy provides for each integer $r \in \mathbb{N}$ a lower bound…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Lucas Slot , Monique Laurent

In this survey we consider polynomial optimization problems, asking to minimize a polynomial function over a compact semialgebraic set, defined by polynomial inequalities. This models a great variety of (in general, nonlinear nonconvex)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Monique Laurent , Lucas Slot

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

In a first contribution, we revisit two certificates of positivity on (possibly non-compact) basic semialgebraic sets due to Putinar and Vasilescu [Comptes Rendus de l'Acad\'emie des Sciences-Series I-Mathematics, 328(6) (1999) pp.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron

Effective Positivstellens\"atze provide convergence rates for the moment-sum-of-squares (SoS) hierarchy for polynomial optimization (POP). In this paper, we add a qualitative property to the recent advances in those effective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Corbinian Schlosser

This paper introduces and develops the algebraic framework of moment polynomials, which are polynomial expressions in commuting variables and their formal mixed moments. Their positivity and optimization over probability measures supported…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Igor Klep , Victor Magron , Jurij Volčič

We show that if a polynomial $f\in \mathbb{R}[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ is nonnegative on a closed basic semialgebraic set $X=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^n:g_1(x)\ge 0,\ldots,g_r (x)\ge 0\}$, where $g_1,\ldots,g_r\in\mathbb{R}[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$, then $f$ can be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Krzysztof Kurdyka , Stanisław Spodzieja

In a broad sense, positivstellens\"atze are results about representations of polynomials which are strictly positive on a given set. We give constructive and, to a large extent, elementary proofs of some known positivstellens\"atze for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Gennadiy Averkov

We provide a monotone non increasing sequence of upper bounds $f^H_k$ ($k\ge 1$) converging to the global minimum of a polynomial $f$ on simple sets like the unit hypercube. The novelty with respect to the converging sequence of upper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Etienne de Klerk , Jean Lasserre , Monique Laurent , Zhao Sun

In recent years, techniques based on convex optimization and real algebra that produce converging hierarchies of lower bounds for polynomial minimization problems have gained much popularity. At their heart, these hierarchies rely crucially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

We show that if a system of degree-$k$ polynomial constraints on~$n$ Boolean variables has a Sums-of-Squares (SOS) proof of unsatisfiability with at most~$s$ many monomials, then it also has one whose degree is of the order of the square…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Albert Atserias , Tuomas Hakoniemi

The standard moment-sum-of-squares (SOS) hierarchy is a powerful method for solving global polynomial optimization problems. However, its convergence relies on Putinar's Positivstellensatz, which requires the feasible set to satisfy the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Didier Henrion

Positivstellensatz is a fundamental result in real algebraic geometry providing algebraic certificates for positivity of polynomials on semialgebraic sets. In this article Positivstellens\"atze for trace polynomials positive on…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Igor Klep , Špela Špenko , Jurij Volčič

We specialize Schm\"udgen's Positivstellensatz and its Putinar and Jacobi and Prestel refinement, to the case of a polynomial $f\in R[X,Y]+R[Y,Z]$, positive on a compact basic semi algebraic set $K$ described by polynomials in $R[X,Y]$ and…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean B. Lasserre