Moments, Sums of Squares, and Tropicalization

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Hauptverfasser: Blekherman, Grigoriy, Rincón, Felipe, Sinn, Rainer, Vinzant, Cynthia, Yu, Josephine
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author Blekherman, Grigoriy
Rincón, Felipe
Sinn, Rainer
Vinzant, Cynthia
Yu, Josephine
author_facet Blekherman, Grigoriy
Rincón, Felipe
Sinn, Rainer
Vinzant, Cynthia
Yu, Josephine
contents We use tropicalization to study the duals to cones of nonnegative polynomials and sums of squares on a semialgebraic set $S$. The truncated cones of moments of measures supported on the set $S$ is dual to nonnegative polynomials on $S$, while "pseudo-moments" are dual to sums of squares approximations to nonnegative polynomials. We provide explicit combinatorial descriptions of tropicalizations of the moment and pseudo-moment cones, and demonstrate their usefulness in distinguishing between nonnegative polynomials and sums of squares. We give examples that show new limitations of sums of squares approximations of nonnegative polynomials. When the semialgebraic set is defined by binomial inequalites, its moment and pseudo-moment cones are closed under Hadamard product. In this case, their tropicalizations are polyhedral cones that encode all binomial inequalities on the moment and pseudo-moment cones.
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spellingShingle Moments, Sums of Squares, and Tropicalization
Blekherman, Grigoriy
Rincón, Felipe
Sinn, Rainer
Vinzant, Cynthia
Yu, Josephine
Algebraic Geometry
Combinatorics
Functional Analysis
Optimization and Control
We use tropicalization to study the duals to cones of nonnegative polynomials and sums of squares on a semialgebraic set $S$. The truncated cones of moments of measures supported on the set $S$ is dual to nonnegative polynomials on $S$, while "pseudo-moments" are dual to sums of squares approximations to nonnegative polynomials. We provide explicit combinatorial descriptions of tropicalizations of the moment and pseudo-moment cones, and demonstrate their usefulness in distinguishing between nonnegative polynomials and sums of squares. We give examples that show new limitations of sums of squares approximations of nonnegative polynomials. When the semialgebraic set is defined by binomial inequalites, its moment and pseudo-moment cones are closed under Hadamard product. In this case, their tropicalizations are polyhedral cones that encode all binomial inequalities on the moment and pseudo-moment cones.
title Moments, Sums of Squares, and Tropicalization
topic Algebraic Geometry
Combinatorics
Functional Analysis
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06291