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math.AG2025
Smooth hyperbolicity cones are second-order cone representable
Claus Scheiderer
Netzer and Sanyal proved that every smooth hyperbolicity cone is a spectrahedral shadow. We generalize and sharpen this result at the same time, by showing that every Nash-smooth h…
math.AG2024
An elementary proof of Hilbert's theorem on ternary quartics: Some complements
Albrecht Pfister, Claus Scheiderer
In 1888, Hilbert proved that every nonnegative quartic form with real coefficients is a sum of three squares of quadratic forms. His proof was ahead of its time and us…
math.AG2024
Convex hulls of curves in -space
Claus Scheiderer
Let be a convex semialgebraic set. The semidefinite extension degree of is the smallest number such that is a linear ima…