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The Lax conjecture is true

Adrian S. Lewis, Pablo A. Parrilo, Motakuri V. Ramana

math.OCarXiv:math/0304104

Abstract

In 1958 Lax conjectured that hyperbolic polynomials in three variables are determinants of linear combinations of three symmetric matrices. This conjecture is equivalent to a recent observation of Helton and Vinnikov.

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