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Copositive and completely positive quadratic forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Marshall Hall Jr
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Morris Newman
Affiliation:
National Bureau of Standards, Washington 25, D.C.

Extract

A copositive quadratic form is a real form which is non-negative for non-negative arguments. A completely positive quadratic form is a real form which can be written as a sum of squares of non-negative real forms. The completely positive forms are basic in the study of block designs arising in combinatorial analysis (3). The copositive forms arise in the theory of inequalities and have been considered in a paper by Mordell (4) and two papers by Diananda(1, 2).

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1963

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