Mathematik und Statistik

KWIM & RGA WS24/25: Sums of squares with at most k terms

Wann
Freitag, 25. Oktober 2024
13:30 bis 15 Uhr

Wo
F 426

Veranstaltet von
Prof. Dr. Salma Kuhlmann & KWIM

Vortragende Person/Vortragende Personen:
Asst. Prof. Dr. Charu Goel

Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe „KWIM Lecture Series“.

Abstract. In this talk we will present some recent results on sums of squares of forms with restricted number of terms. We consider the cones corresponding to the sums of squares of n-ary d-ic forms with atmost k terms, which are closed and convex. We show that these cones are strictly nested as k increases, leading to the usual sum of squares cone. For n greater than or equal to 3, we construct indefinite irreducible n-ary d-ic forms with exactly k terms, for k greater than or equal to 2. This is a joint work with Bruce Reznick.