Put , so . The power series coefficients of the hyperbolic sine preprocessing are
Thus 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 . Therefore
The 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.
Pair the off-circle roots of a polynomial using reciprocal-conjugate root pairing, and split each unit-circle root of a polynomial's even multiplicity equally between the two members of a pair. The fundamental theorem of algebra and the leading coefficient give . None of the selected is zero.
On the unit circle, the identity
turns into
At a point of the unit circle outside the finite set of roots of a polynomial, the product is positive and is nonzero and nonnegative. Its ratio to the product is therefore real and strictly positive. This proves , even though the algebraic expression initially permits a complex constant. Consequently
This proves the Fejér–Riesz theorem for a nonzero trigonometric polynomial of actual order . A positive constant has a constant square-root factor, and the identically zero trigonometric polynomial has ; if for a specified upper order , reduce to the actual order first.
Although the PDF permits assuming even multiplicity, there is a short proof of even multiplicity of unit-circle roots of a nonnegative trigonometric polynomial. The real analytic function cannot have a zero of odd order. Near , has a simple zero, and the nonzero factor leaves the zero order of unchanged. Hence the multiplicity of a root must be even.
For , the coefficient symmetry yields
Thus equals its reversed-conjugate polynomial. If is a root of a polynomial, with , this identity gives , proving
The reciprocal-conjugate root pairing also preserves the multiplicity of a root: reversal and complex conjugation take each factor associated with to the corresponding factor associated with , with the same exponent.
Since , no zero root of a polynomial occurs, so the reciprocal operation is always defined on the roots of a polynomial. Roots off the unit circle are paired on opposite sides of it; roots of a polynomial on the unit circle are fixed by this operation. Pairing alone does not force even multiplicity at those fixed roots of a polynomial; that extra fact uses nonnegativity.
Since is real on the unit circle,
Multiply the difference by . It is an ordinary polynomial of polynomial degree at most vanishing at every point of the unit circle. A nonzero polynomial has only finitely many roots of a polynomial, so all its coefficients vanish. This proves the conjugate symmetry of trigonometric polynomial coefficients:
For arbitrary nonzero complex , coefficient substitution now gives precisely
Equivalently . The complex conjugation on the right applies to the whole value, including the coefficients; it cannot simply be discarded away from the circle.
The PDF additionally assumes . Then , so the ensuing polynomial has polynomial degree exactly and nonzero constant term. These clauses and this subpart are absent from the damaged TeX, but present in the PDF.
Collect the factor's coefficients in the column vector and set
This is a Hermitian matrix and a positive semidefinite matrix, because for every complex vector ,
On the unit circle, expanding the modulus square gives
Uniqueness of the finite Laurent polynomial coefficients, proved as in part (b)(i), therefore gives
This is the rank-one spectral-factor Gram matrix. The matrix has matrix rank one when and zero when . The orientation is the PDF's convention: using instead would generally interchange and .
For coefficient column , is a Hermitian matrix and a positive semidefinite matrix because . Expanding on the unit circle gives coefficient . Thus has matrix rank one when and zero otherwise. General feasible Gram matrices need not have matrix rank one.
For a nonzero real-on-the-circle trigonometric polynomial of actual order , the polynomial satisfies . Its constant term is the nonzero conjugate of its leading coefficient. Hence its nonzero roots of a polynomial occur in pairs with the same multiplicity of a root. The coefficient reversal and complex conjugation preserve the exponents of the paired factors. Fixed roots of a polynomial on the unit circle require nonnegativity, rather than this symmetry alone, to have even multiplicity.