Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4596530 Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 2012 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

We prove that the Membership Problem is solvable affirmatively for every finitely generated quadratic module Q of R[X1]. For the case that the associated semialgebraic set S is bounded we show that a polynomial f is an element of Q if and only if f is nonnegative on S and fulfills certain order conditions in the boundary points of S. This leads us to the definition of generalized natural generators of the quadratic module Q.

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