Integrating products of quadratic forms
Probability
2020-02-19 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms
Metric Geometry
Optimization and Control
Abstract
We prove that if are quadratic forms in variables such that each depends on at most variables and each has common variables with at most other forms, then the average value of the product with respect to the standard Gaussian measure in can be approximated within relative error in quasi-polynomial time, provided for some absolute constant and . When are interpreted as pairwise squared distances for configurations of points in Euclidean space, the average can be interpreted as the partition function of systems of particles with mollified logarithmic potentials. We sketch a possible application to testing the feasibility of systems of real quadratic equations.
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@article{arxiv.2002.07249,
title = {Integrating products of quadratic forms},
author = {Alexander Barvinok},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07249},
year = {2020}
}
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15 pages