Questions tagged [positivity]
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Polynomials with presumably positive coefficients
After seeing that some positivity problems get their solutions on MO,
I am quite enthusiastic of posing my (and not only) problem of positive flavour.
In order to state it, I have to introduce the ...
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Product of a Schubert polynomial and a double Schubert polynomial
Let $S_u(x)$ be a Schubert polynomial and let $S_v(x;y)$ be a double Schubert polynomial. Then their product can be expressed in terms of the double Schubert polynomials as
$$S_u(x)S_v(x;y)=\sum_w{c_{...
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Positivity of polynomial sequences via generating series
In this question I address
the problem of proving the nonnegativity of a numerical sequence
$a_0,a_1,a_2,\dots$ via generating series technique. In the notation
$A(x)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_nx^n\ge0$ ...
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Can we extend c.p. normal maps on a finite von Neumann algebra $M$ to $L_0(M)_+$?
Suppose that $M$ is a von Neumann algebra with a finite, normal, faithful trace $\tau$. Let $T\colon M\to M$ be a completely positive, normal map.
Can $T$ be extended to a `positively linear map' ...
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Hilbert spaces over the semi-field $\mathbb R_+$
Let $\mathbb R_+$ be the semi-field of non-negative real numbers.
Definition (preliminary): A Hilbert space over $\mathbb R_+$ is a pair $(H,P)$, where $H$ is a complex Hilbert space, and $P\subset H$...
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Ample divisors on $T$-varieties
Question: how does one use a torus action to help decide whether a divisor or line bundle is ample?
In more detail: I have a (normal, but usually rather singular) $T$-variety $X$, where $T$ is an ...
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Positivity of certain polynomial coefficients
Consider the rational functions (in fact, polynomials)
$$F_n(q)=\frac1{(1-q)^{2n}}\sum_{k=0}^n(-q)^k\frac{2k+1}{n+k+1}\binom{2n}{n-k}
\prod_{j=0,\,j\neq k}^n\frac{1+q^{2j+1}}{1+q}.$$
The numbers $\...
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Extension of positive functionals
Let $X$ be a function space as $C(K)$ or $L^p$, with its usual norm and order, that is $f \le g$ if and only if $f(x) \le g(x)$ for a.e. $x$. If $M$ is a subspace of $X$ and $L:M \to \bf R$ is a ...
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$\ell^\infty / ces_0$ as an ordered Banach space
Let
$ces_0:=\{\xi\in\ell^\infty : \lim_{n\to \infty}\frac{1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{n}\xi_k=0\}$ and $q:\ell^\infty \to \ell^\infty/ces_0$ be the usual quotient map. The space $ces_0$ is closed in $\ell^\...
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Positive splitting of Sobolev convergence
Let $f,g,h \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$ be non-negative Sobolev functions such that $f^2 = g^2 + h^2$. Let also $\{f_k\} \subseteq H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$ be non-negative Sobolev functions such that $f_k \to f$ ...
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Recursions which define polynomials?
Let $k$ be a positive integer and let
$$h(n,k,q)=\frac{1-(1+q^{k})q^{2k(n-1)+1}+q^{2}}{1-q^{2n-1}}h(n-1,k,q)-\frac{(1-q^{k(2n-3)})(1-q^{2k(n-1)})q^2}{(1-q^{2n-1})(1-q^{2n-3})}h(n-2,k,q)$$
with ...
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(Relative) ampleness on algebraic spaces
This is a follow-up (of sorts) to this question.
Let $f : X \to T$ be a proper morphism of schemes. Then the notion of a relative ample (or $f$-ample) line bundle can be defined in several ...
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Do there exist weak Lefschetz-type statements that were proved for varieties over complex numbers, but were not proved in finite characteristic?
As far as I understood the situation (reading section 3.5B of Lazarsfeld's "Positivity in algebraic geometry" and also some of the references), some of weak Lefschetz-type statements known rely on '...
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Reference request: a survey of (linear) Krein-Rutman theory
I'm looking for a survey article or book chapter where a rather exhaustive treatment of the Krein-Rutman theory of positive linear operators an ordered Banach spaces is given.
Motivation. Some ...
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When is the strict transform of very ample divisor ample?
Let $X$ be a projective variety and $Y \subset X$ is a very ample divisor on $X$. Let $Z \subset X$ be a regular subvariety (but $X$ need not be regular along $Z$) of codimension $2$ and $\pi:\tilde{X}...
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Non-linear positive map
In the paper titled "Nonlinear completely positive maps" M. D. Choi and T. Ando extended natural definition of completely positive maps ignoring the linearity condition (Aspects of positivity in ...
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A weak Perron-Frobenius property for sets of positive matrices
A popular form of the Perron-Frobenius theorem states the following result: if $A$ is a $d \times d$ real matrix all of whose entries are positive, then the spectral radius of $A$ is a simple ...
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Notions of positivity for q-polynomials
What are some existing notions of positivity (or nonnegativity) for $\mathbf{R}[q]$ such that all $q$-integers $[n]_q = 1+q+...+q^{n-1}$ are positive, as well as all polynomials that can be expressed ...
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Positivity of a finite sum involving Stirling numbers of the first kind
Past days I've been trying to prove that certain polynomials have positive coefficients. After a lot of thinking, I came up with a formula for each coefficient individually, and they are not that ugly....
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Positivity of q-analogs of central binomial coefficients?
With the usual $q-$notations
$[n]_q=1+q+\cdots+q^{n-1}=\frac{\,\,1-q^n}{1-q},$
$[n]_q!=[1]_q[2]_q\cdots[n]_q$ and
$\binom{n}k_q=\frac{[n]_q!}{[k]_q!\cdot[n-k]_q!}$
let
$$b(n,k,r,q)=\det\left(q^{r\...
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Do these cousins of permanents satisfy the following inequality?
Let $H$ denote an $n$ by $n$ hermitian positive semidefinite matrix. Let $G$ and $K$ be two subgroups of the symmetric group $\Sigma_n$. Define
$$ f_{G, K}(H) = \sum_{(\sigma, \tau) \in G \times K} \...
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Inequalities involving traces of products of hermitian positive semidefinite matrices
$\DeclareMathOperator{\tr}{tr}$
Fix an integer $n \geq 2$. Let $A_1, \dotsc, A_n$ be hermitian positive semidefinite matrices, with each $A_i$ being $m$ by $m$.
Consider the symmetric group $S_n$ on $...
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Cofactor matrices and positive semi-definiteness
If $A$ is an $n\times n$ matrix with real entries, let me write $\widehat A$ its cofactor matrix. Since the map $A\mapsto\widehat A$ is polynomial, homogeneous of degree $n-1$, it can be multi-...
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Modular counting of integral points under sparse non-negativity
Given a polyhedron
$$Ax\geq b$$
where every entry of $A,b$ are non-negative and $A\in\{0,1\}^{m\times n}$ and there are $O(1)$ (say $\leq8$) non-negative entries per row of $A$ is it possible to ...
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Schur positive expression involving border-strip tableaux
Recall the power-sum expansion of Schur functions,
$$
s_\lambda = \sum_\mu \chi^{\lambda}(\mu) \frac{p_\mu}{z_\mu},
$$
in terms of Sn-character. These can be calculated
by the Murnaghan-Nakayama rule, ...
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On the existence of fixed points of a matrix iteration
Let $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be a Hurwitz stable matrix (i.e. all eigenvalues of $A$ have negative real part). Let $\succeq$ denote the standard partial order in the cone of positive semidefinite ...
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Quadratic forms over symmetric $3\times3$ matrices
This question is motivated by a technique called compensated compactness (CC), which was elaborated by L. Tartar and F. Murat for the analysis of PDEs. The foreword of CC is a problem about quadratic ...
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Proving non-negativity of a hypergeometric type sum
I am trying to prove the following inequality:
$$
\sum\limits_{k=0}^{m}\frac{(a)_k(a+\mu)_{m-k}}{(c)_k(c+\mu)_{m-k}}\binom{m}{k}(m-2k+\mu)\geq{0},
$$
where $(a)_0=1$, $(a)_k=a(a+1)\cdots(a+k-1)$ is ...
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Surfaces with $\Omega_X$ big are of general type
Given a complete algebraic variety $X$ over $\mathbb{C}$ and a vector bundle $E$ of rank $r$, let $\Omega(X,E)$ denote the graded ring $\bigoplus_{m\ge 0}H^0(X,S^mE)$, and define $$\lambda(E,X)=\...
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Bounds on the coin-flipping degree
Let $p(\lambda)$ be a polynomial that maps the closed unit interval to itself and satisfies $0\lt p(\lambda)\lt 1$ whenever $0\lt\lambda\lt 1$.
The polynomial can be written in power form:
$$p(\lambda)...
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Does there always exist a(n uniform) polynomial that makes a positive definite symmetric matrix with polynomial entries into a sum of squares?
Suppose that I have a square and positive definite for every evaluation $x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$ symmetric matrix $M(x)\in(\mathbb{R}[x])^{s\times s}.$
Does there always exist a polynomial $p(x)\in\...
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Structure of the big cone and Seshadri constant on Fano manifolds
I would like to know something about the following two questions.
Given $X$ Fano manifold and $L$ an ample line bundle on $X$, we define
\begin{gather}
\sigma(L,x):=\sup\{t>0\, :\, \mu^{*}L-tE \,\,...
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Formula for a completely positive map
Is there a family of completely positive maps $L(A,B)$ depending continuously on two nonzero, symmetric positive semidefinite $n\times n$ matrices $A$ and $B$, such that $L(A,B)$ maps $A$ to $B$ and ...
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Vanishing of a global sections space
Let $X\hookrightarrow\mathbb P^n_k$ be a projective variety over $k$ of degree $\delta$ with respect to $\mathcal O(1)$, $x\in X(k)$ be a regular rational point (I think a closed point is also OK). ...
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Do integral curves on simple abelian surfaces define big line bundles?
Let $A$ be a simple abelian surface over $\mathbb{C}$.
Let $C\subset A$ be an irreducible and reduced one-dimensional closed subscheme. Since $A$ is simple, the normalization of $C$ is of genus at ...
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Reference request: Positive solution of positive system of linear equations
Let $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be an invertible matrix with positive entries,
and $b \in \mathbb{R}^n$ a vector with positive entries.
When does $A^{-1}b$ have all positive entries?
I am looking ...
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Sums of hermitian squares in free abelian group algebras and real positive semidefinite matrices
A little context for the following question, first. As Noah Stein notes in a comment below, the present question is closely related to the free semialgebraic geometry studied by Helton and his ...
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Finding a functional that stays non-negative on a particular subset of $L^2[0, 1]$
Start with the Hilbert space $L^2([0, 1])$ with Lebesgue measure. Fix some Borel-to-Borel measurable function $f: [0, 1] \times [0, 1] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. I present 4 scenarios, each more ...
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Cofactor an geometrical mean in $\mathit{SPD}_3$: a Gårding-like inequality
The cofactor map $A\mapsto\widehat A$ is polynomial homogeneous of degree $n-1$ over $\mathbf M_n({\mathbb R})$. It can be polarized into an $(n-1)$-linear symmetric map. When $n=3$, this provides a ...
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Detecting non-negativity of a single constraint by polyhedral constraints - $II$
Let $$\langle a,x\rangle=b$$ be a linear constraint where $x\in\mathbb R^n$ and every entry in $a=(a_1,\dots,a_n)$ is in $\mathbb Z_{\geq0}^{n}$ (non-negative) and the entry $b$ is in $\mathbb Z_{\...
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Preserving the strictly total positivity of special bases by using radial basis functions
Let $\left[\alpha,\beta\right]$ be a non-empty interval and consider an $\left(n+1\right)$-dimensional subspace $\mathbb{S}_{n}$ of $C^n\left(\left[\alpha,\beta\right]\right)$ such that $\mathbb{S}_{n}...
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Non Negative Tensor Tucker Decomposition Error Degradation
I have been working on iterative decomposition methods of tensors with non negativity constraints. I have noticed that $\textbf{N}$on negative $\textbf{T}$ensor $\textbf{F}$actorization "NTF" which is ...
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Extending the projective action of several positive linear maps to a complex neighbourhood
I am currently reading a paper which, somewhat indirectly, asserts the following result:
Lemma: Let $\Delta \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ denote the simplex $\{(x_1,\ldots,x_d):\sum_{i=1}^d x_i=1\}$, let $...
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Find condition on signed matrix $A$ such that $\sum_jA_{ij}\cos(\theta_i-\theta_j)\geq 0$ implies $\sum_j\cos(\theta_i-\theta_j)\geq 0$?
As stated in the title, My question is:
Suppose $\sum_jA_{ij}\sin(\theta_i-\theta_j)=0,\forall i\in[n]$.
How to find condition on symmetric, diagonal-free, signed matrix $A$ ($A_{ij}=+1$ or $-1$ if $i\...
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Non-proper orthant automorphisms
Given a real vector space $V$ of dimension $d$, it is known that the automorphism Lie group of the nonnegative orthant $\mathcal{O}^+_d$ can be described just as $$\mathrm{Aut}(\mathcal{O}^+_d)=\...
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Formulas involving traces of products of singular hermitian positive semidefinite $2$ by $2$ matrices
While working on the Atiyah problem on configurations of points, I came across formulas involving products of traces of products of singular hermitian positive semidefinite $2$ by $2$ matrices.
To ...
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Spectral projection of a positive operator
Let $(X,K)$ be a partially ordered Banach space where the cone $K$ is generating and normal. Suppose $B$ is a bounded operator on $X$ such that $B(K)\subseteq K$, the spectral radius $\rho(B)=1$ and ...
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Continuity under various topologies for positive linear functionals
It is known that if $\mathcal A$ is a unital $\mathbb C$-$*$-algebra and $A$ is a unital subalgebra closed under $*$, and if $f : A \to \mathbb C$ is linear, then $f$ is positive if and only if $f$ is ...
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Show that a certain ratio of diagonal entries dominates a certain ratio of singular values
Let $D=[d_{ij}]_{i,j=1,\ldots,4}$ be a $4 \times 4$ “density matrix”, that is, a Hermitian (possibly symmetric) positive definite matrix having trace 1—that is, the (nonnegative) diagonal entries sum ...