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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 339 2 e Solution by
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Put , so . The power series coefficients of the hyperbolic sine preprocessing areThus for every , and the series converge on the full interval. Applying coefficient-dominated entrywise positivity gives .
Every diagonal entry belongs to one of the diagonal blocks and equals . Because and , this is . ThereforeThe matrix lies in the elliptope and admits a Gram matrix representation by unit vectors. This preprocessing is the Krivine rounding scheme; the equality of absolute coefficients is what preserves positive semidefiniteness even though the cross-block sine coefficients alternate in sign.
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