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Can a real quartic polynomial in two variables have more than 4 isolated local minima?
Recent addition: Inspired by DimaPasechnik's and Matt F.'s comments about sum of squares decompositions, I tried the following very natural idea: Try to find $f$ of the form $f(x,y)=A(x,y)^2+B(x,y)^2$,...
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Roots of linear combination of $x \sin x$
The equation you wrote is
$$\sum_{i,j}a_{i,j}(\theta_i-\theta_j)\sin((\theta_i-\theta_j)t)=0$$
for $t\in(0,1).$. Since sines are linearly independent,
this is only possible either when $a_{i,j}(\...
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