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Spectrahedral representations of plane hyperbolic curves

Algebraic Geometry 2019-12-25 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

We describe a new method for constructing a spectrahedral representation of the hyperbolicity region of a hyperbolic curve in the real projective plane. As a consequence, we show that if the curve is smooth and defined over the rational numbers, then there is a spectrahedral representation with rational matrices. This generalizes a classical construction for determinantal representations of plane curves due to Dixon and relies on the special properties of real hyperbolic curves that interlace the given curve.

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@article{arxiv.1807.10901,
  title  = {Spectrahedral representations of plane hyperbolic curves},
  author = {Mario Kummer and Simone Naldi and Daniel Plaumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10901},
  year   = {2019}
}

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18 pages, 8 figures

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