On the minimum of a positive polynomial over the standard simplex

  • Authors:
  • Gabriela Jeronimo;Daniel Perrucci

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemática, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina and CONICET, Argentina;Departamento de Matemática, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a new positive lower bound for the minimum value taken by a polynomial P with integer coefficients in k variables over the standard simplex of R^k, assuming that P is positive on the simplex. This bound depends only on the number of variables k, the degree d and the bitsize @t of the coefficients of P and improves all the previous bounds for arbitrary polynomials which are positive over the simplex.