Pólya proved that if a real, homogeneous polynomial is positive on the nonnegative orthant (except at the origin), then it is the quotient of two homogeneous polynomials with no negative coefficients. We generalize this from polynomials to signomials with arbitrary rational exponents; we also show that Pólya’s theorem does not generalize to arbitrary signomials (i.e., with irrational (real) exp...

Let A be a polynomial ring in n+ 1 variables over an arbitrary infinite field k. It is proved that for all sufficiently large n and d there is a homogeneous prime ideal p ⊂ A satisfying the following conditions. The ideal p corresponds to a component, defined over k and irreducible over s k, of a projective algebraic variety given by a system of homogeneous polynomial equations with polynomials...

Leapfrog transformations starting with the genus 3 Klein and Dyck tessellations consisting of 24 heptagons and 12 octagons, respectively, can generate possible highly symmetrical structures for allotropes of carbon and the isosteric boron nitride, (BN)x. The Klein tessellation, alternatively described as a platonic 3,7 tessellation, corresponds to the Riemann surface for the multi-valued functi...

We prove two general results on generalized symmetries for equations of the form ut = um + f(u, u1, . . . , um−1), where f is a formal (differential) power series starting with terms that are at least quadratic. The first result states that any higher order symmetry must be also a differential polynomial if f is a differential polynomial of order less than m − 1. The method is to estimate the o...

Due to their fundamental nature and numerous applications, sphere constrained polynomial optimization problems have received a lot of attention lately. In this paper, we consider three such problems: (i) maximizing a homogeneous polynomial over the sphere; (ii) maximizing a multilinear form over a Cartesian product of spheres; and (iii) maximizing a multiquadratic form over a Cartesian product ...

We obtain sharp estimates for p-adic oscillatory integrals of the form

We introduce a “workable” notion of degree for non-homogeneous polynomial ideals and formulate and prove ideal theoretic Bézout Inequalities for the sum of two ideals in terms of this notion of degree and the degree of generators. We compute probabilistically the degree of an equidimensional ideal.

In this paper, we apply the theory of multivariate polynomial matrices to the study of syzygy modules for a system of homogeneous linear equations with multivariate polynomial coefficients. Several interesting structural properties of syzygy modules are presented and illustrated with examples. © 1999 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. AMS classification: 15A23; 13P05; 15A24; 15A06; 13C9...

In the theory of monomial ideals of a polynomial ring S over a field k, it is convenient that for each such ideal I there is a standard free resolution, so called Taylor resolution, that can be canonically constructed from the minimal system of monomial generators of I (see [7], p.439 and section 2). On the other hand no construction of a minimal resolution for an arbitrary monomial ideal has b...