An elementary recursive bound for effective Positivstellensatz and Hilbert 17-th problem
Henri Lombardi, Daniel Perrucci, Marie-Françoise Roy · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2014
We prove elementary recursive bounds in the degrees for Positivstellensatz and Hilbert 17-th problem, which is the expression of a nonnegative polynomial as a sum of squares of rational functions. We obtain a tower of five exponentials. A precise bound in terms of the number and degree of the polynomials and their number of variables is provided in the paper.