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Positivity conditions for polynomials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Valerio De Angelis
Valerio De Angelis
Affiliation:
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1000 Centennial Drive, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA‡
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Abstract

We study several notions of positivity for a class of real-valued functions of several variables that includes the Laurent polynomials. We show that Handelman's positivity condition is characterized by boundedness of the associated Legendre transformation, or boundedness of the entropy function, while another notion of positivity here introduced characterizes the mapping property of the Legendre transformation derived by Marcus and Tuncel for beta functions. Several examples are given to distinguish the various notions of positivity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 23 - 51
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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