Wednesday, August 10, 2016 3:30 pm
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3:30 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
Arthur Mehta, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Positivstellensatz and semi-pre-C*-algebras"
A positivstellensatz can loosely be described as a characterisation of elements a in an algebra A that are positive under a certain class of representations. In this talk we review some classical results regarding positive polynomials and then look at a series of Positivstellensatz that can be obtained by using the framework of semi-pre-C*-algebras.
MC 5501