On the roots of generalized Wills μ-polynomials
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María A. Hernández Cifre [1] ; Jesús Yepes Nicolás [2]
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[1] Universidad de Murcia
Universidad de Murcia
Murcia, España
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[2] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid, España
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- Localización: Revista matemática iberoamericana, ISSN 0213-2230, Vol. 31, Nº 2, 2015, págs. 477-496
- Idioma: inglés
- DOI: 10.4171/RMI/842
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Resumen
We investigate the roots of a family of geometric polynomials of convex bodies associated to a given measure μμ on the non-negative real line R≥0, which arise from the so called Wills functional. We study its structure, showing that the set of roots in the upper half-plane is a closed convex cone, containing the non-positive real axis R≤0, and strictly increasing in the dimension, for any measure μμ. Moreover, it is proved that the 'smallest' cone of roots of these μμ-polynomials is the one given by the Steiner polynomial, which provides, for example, additional information about the roots of μμ-polynomials when the dimension is large enough. It will also give necessary geometric conditions for a sequence {mi:i=0,1,…} to be the moments of a certain measure on R≥0, a question regarding the so called (Stieltjes) moment problem.
