Saturday, 14 July 2012

linear algebra - bounded homogeneous quartics

If Q is a real homogeneous quartic on RN,



Q(x)=sum1<=i,j,k,l<=NQijklxixjxkxl



what is the condition on the (totally symmetric) coefficients Qijkl for Q being bounded from below? I'm looking for the simplest expression in terms of Qijkl. Clearly, if Qijkl, as considered a map from the space of real symmetric matrices to the space of real symmetric matrices is positive semi-definite, is enough. But this is a too strong condition because xixj is a rank-1 real symmetric matrix, so in Q(x) Q is only evaluated on rank-1 matrices, not on every real symmetric matrix.

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