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Consider a family of semialgebraic sets $S_t \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ ($t \in [0,1]$) of the form $$ S_t = \{ x \in \mathbb{R}^d \ : \ p_1(x,t) \geq 0,\ p_2(x,t) \geq 0, \dots, p_m(x,t) \geq 0 \} $$ ...

Suppose I have a polynomial $p\in R[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ and I look at the set $S:=\{ x\in R^n : p(x)\geq 0\}$. Are there algebraic certificates on $p$ that will certify that $S$ is compact?