Volumes of Nonnegative Polynomials, Sums of Squares and Powers of Linear Forms

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2004-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/math/0402158v1

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

24 pages

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We study the quantitative relationship between the cones of nonnegative polynomials, cones of sums of squares and cones of sums of powers of linear forms. We derive bounds on the volumes (raised to the power reciprocal to the ambient dimension) of compact sections of the three cones. We show that the bounds are asymptotically exact if the degree is fixed and number of variables tends to infinity. When the degree is larger than two it follows that there are significantly more non-negative polynomials than sums of squares and there are significantly more sums of squares than sums of powers of linear forms. Moreover, we quantify the exact discrepancy between the cones; from our bounds it follows that the discrepancy grows as the number of variables increases.

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