Lax's conjecture on determinantal representations of ternary hyperbolic polynomials
Lax's conjecture on determinantal representations of ternary hyperbolic polynomials
Let be a polynomial on that is hyperbolic of degree with respect to and satisfies . Let denote the identity matrix and let denote the space of real symmetric matrices. Lax's conjecture. There exist matrices such that
The conjecture asserts that every normalized ternary hyperbolic polynomial has a definite symmetric determinantal representation, equivalently that its hyperbolicity cone is a semidefinite slice. The paper proves this conjecture, so the statement is now a theorem.
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Adrian S. Lewis, Pablo A. Parrilo and Motakuri V. Ramana, “The Lax conjecture is true”, arXiv:math/0304104 (2004).
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