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On the degree of varieties of sum of squares

Andrew Ferguson · Giorgio Ottaviani · Mohab Safey El Din +1 more

We study the problem of how many different sums of squares decompositions ageneral polynomial $f$ with SOS-rank $k$ admits. We show that there is a linkbetween the variety $\mathrm{SOS}_k(f)$ of all SOS-decompositions of $f$ andthe orthogonal group $\mathrm{O}(k)$. We exploit this connection to obtain thedimension of $\mathrm{SOS}_k(f)$ and show that its degree is bounded from belowby the degree of $\mathrm{O}(k)$. In particular, for $k=2$ we show that$\mathrm{SOS}_2(f)$ is isomorphic to $\mathrm{O}(2)$ and hence the degree boundbecomes an equality. Moreover, we compute the dimension of the space ofpolynomials of SOS-rank $k$ and obtain the degree in the special case $k=2$.

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