S4-Conjecture for ternary quartics and quadratic forms

Let ff be a ternary quartic, that is, a 44-form in R[x1,x2,x3]\mathbb{R}[\mathrm{x}_1,\mathrm{x}_2,\mathrm{x}_3], and let gg be a quadratic form in R[x1,x2,x3]\mathbb{R}[\mathrm{x}_1,\mathrm{x}_2,\mathrm{x}_3]. Suppose there exists xR3x'\in\mathbb{R}^3 such that g(x)>0g(x')>0. Write

S(h)={xR3:h(x)0}S(h)=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^3:h(x)\geq 0\}

for the non-negativity set of a polynomial hh. S4-Conjecture. The following statements are equivalent: (a) S(g)S(f)S(g)\subseteq S(f); (b) there exists a non-negative homogeneous polynomial tR[x1,x2,x3]2t\in\mathbb{R}[\mathrm{x}_1,\mathrm{x}_2,\mathrm{x}_3]_2 such that

f(x)t(x)g(x)0f(x)-t(x)g(x)\geq 0

for all xR3x\in\mathbb{R}^3. The conjecture is resolved: the source states that this question was answered by the author. This result provides a higher-degree analogue of the homogeneous S-lemma, replacing a non-negative scalar multiplier by a non-negative homogeneous quadratic polynomial.

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Philipp Jukic, “Higher degree S-lemma and the stability of quadratic modules”, arXiv:1701.07013 (2017).

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