Diagonal minus tail forms and Lasserre's sufficient conditions for sums of squares

Using our recent results on diagonal minus tail forms, we give an easily tested sufficient condition for a polynomial f(x) = P i2I fixi in IR[x] = IR[x1, . . . , xn], to be a sum of squares of polynomials (sos). We show that the class of polynomials passing this test is wider than the class passing...

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Main Author: Fidalgo, Carla (author)
Other Authors: Kovačec, Alexander (author)
Format: other
Language:eng
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/11179
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/11179
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Summary:Using our recent results on diagonal minus tail forms, we give an easily tested sufficient condition for a polynomial f(x) = P i2I fixi in IR[x] = IR[x1, . . . , xn], to be a sum of squares of polynomials (sos). We show that the class of polynomials passing this test is wider than the class passing Lasserre’s recent conditions. Another sufficient condition for f to be sos, like Lasserre’s piecewise linear in the fi, is also given.