Representation and Approximation of Positivity Preservers

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2009-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0279v1

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Functional Analysis

17 pages

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We consider a closed set S in R^n and a linear operator \Phi on the polynomial algebra R[X_1,...,X_n] that preserves nonnegative polynomials, in the following sense: if f\geq 0 on S, then \Phi(f)\geq 0 on S as well. We show that each such operator is given by integration with respect to a measure taking nonnegative functions as its values. This can be seen as a generalization of Haviland's Theorem, which concerns linear functionals on polynomial algebras. For compact sets S we use the result to show that any nonnegativity preserving operator is a pointwise limit of very simple nonnegativity preservers with finite dimensional range.

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