On the degree of varieties of sum of squares

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Autori principali: Ferguson, Andrew, Ottaviani, Giorgio, Din, Mohab Safey El, Turatti, Ettore Teixeira
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author Ferguson, Andrew
Ottaviani, Giorgio
Din, Mohab Safey El
Turatti, Ettore Teixeira
author_facet Ferguson, Andrew
Ottaviani, Giorgio
Din, Mohab Safey El
Turatti, Ettore Teixeira
contents We study the problem of how many different sums of squares decompositions a general polynomial $f$ with SOS-rank $k$ admits. We show that there is a link between the variety $\mathrm{SOS}_k(f)$ of all SOS-decompositions of $f$ and the orthogonal group $\mathrm{O}(k)$. We exploit this connection to obtain the dimension of $\mathrm{SOS}_k(f)$ and show that its degree is bounded from below by the degree of $\mathrm{O}(k)$. In particular, for $k=2$ we show that $\mathrm{SOS}_2(f)$ is isomorphic to $\mathrm{O}(2)$ and hence the degree bound becomes an equality. Moreover, we compute the dimension of the space of polynomials of SOS-rank $k$ and obtain the degree in the special case $k=2$.
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spellingShingle On the degree of varieties of sum of squares
Ferguson, Andrew
Ottaviani, Giorgio
Din, Mohab Safey El
Turatti, Ettore Teixeira
Algebraic Geometry
14N07, 14N05
We study the problem of how many different sums of squares decompositions a general polynomial $f$ with SOS-rank $k$ admits. We show that there is a link between the variety $\mathrm{SOS}_k(f)$ of all SOS-decompositions of $f$ and the orthogonal group $\mathrm{O}(k)$. We exploit this connection to obtain the dimension of $\mathrm{SOS}_k(f)$ and show that its degree is bounded from below by the degree of $\mathrm{O}(k)$. In particular, for $k=2$ we show that $\mathrm{SOS}_2(f)$ is isomorphic to $\mathrm{O}(2)$ and hence the degree bound becomes an equality. Moreover, we compute the dimension of the space of polynomials of SOS-rank $k$ and obtain the degree in the special case $k=2$.
title On the degree of varieties of sum of squares
topic Algebraic Geometry
14N07, 14N05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07473