High-Order Conditions for an Analytic Function to Be Locally Positive Definite
摘要
We consider an analytic function from \(\mathbb {R}^n\) to \(\mathbb {R}\) and provide some sufficient conditions involving homogeneous polynomials with respect to some family of dilations ensuring that the function presents a strict local minimum at some point. For a polynomial function, we show how to use Tarski-Seidenberg theorem or Sturm theorem to investigate the same issue.