(Positive) Quadratic Determinantal Representations of Quartic Curves and the Robinson Polynomial
Abstract
We prove that every real nonnegative ternary quartic whose complex zero set is smooth can be represented as the determinant of a symmetric matrix with quadratic entries which is everywhere positive semidefinite. We show that the corresponding statement fails for the Robinson polynomial, answering a question by Buckley and Sivic.
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