Quadratic Monomials #
Part of the explicit persistent quartic SOS counterexample.
theorem
PersistentSOS.exponent_degree_le_two
{σ : Type u_1}
(d : σ →₀ ℕ)
(h : (d.sum fun (x : σ) (n : ℕ) => n) ≤ 2)
:
d = 0 ∨ (∃ (i : σ), d = Finsupp.single i 1) ∨ ∃ (i : σ) (j : σ), d = Finsupp.single i 1 + Finsupp.single j 1
Every monomial of total degree at most two is constant, a variable, or a product of two variables (allowing a repeated variable).