Extension of the two-variable Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture to generalized polynomials

Details Extension of the two-variable Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture to generalized polynomials Extension of the two-variable Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture to generalized polynomials

2010-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/1002.0038v1

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Algebraic Geometry

16 pages, 4 figures

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Let R denote the reals, and let h: R^n --> R be a continuous, piecewise-polynomial function. The Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture (1956) is that any such h is representable in the form sup_i inf_j f_{ij}, for some finite collection of polynomials f_{ij} in R[x_1,...,x_n]. (A simple example is h(x_1) = |x_1| = sup{x_1, -x_1}.) In 1984, L. Mahe and, independently, G. Efroymson, proved this for n < 3; it remains open for n > 2. In this paper we prove an analogous result for "generalized polynomials" (also known as signomials), i.e., where the exponents are allowed to be arbitrary real numbers, and not just natural numbers; in this version, we restrict to the positive orthant, where each x_i > 0. As before, our methods work only for n < 3.

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