Download or read book An Elementary Recursive Bound for Effective Positivstellensatz and Hilbert’s 17th Problem written by Henri Lombardi and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors prove an elementary recursive bound on the degrees for Hilbert's 17th problem. More precisely they express a nonnegative polynomial as a sum of squares of rational functions and obtain as degree estimates for the numerators and denominators the following tower of five exponentials 222d4k where d is the number of variables of the input polynomial. The authors' method is based on the proof of an elementary recursive bound on the degrees for Stengle's Positivstellensatz. More precisely the authors give an algebraic certificate of the emptyness of the realization of a system of sign conditions and obtain as degree bounds for this certificate a tower of five exponentials, namely 22(2max{2,d}4k+s2kmax{2,d}16kbit(d)) where d is a bound on the degrees, s is the number of polynomials and k is the number of variables of the input polynomials.