Strict Positivstellensätze for matrix polynomials with scalar constraints
Abstract
We extend Krivine's strict positivstellensatz for usual (real multivariate) polynomials to symmetric matrix polynomials with scalar constraints. The proof is an elementary computation with Schur complements. Analogous extensions of Schm\" udgen's and Putinar's strict positivstellensatz were recently proved by Hol and Scherer using methods from optimization theory.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 2010
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1011.4930
- Bibcode:
- 2010arXiv1011.4930C
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry;
- Mathematics - Optimization and Control;
- 14P;
- 13J30;
- 47A56
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, to appear in Linear Algebra and its Applications