Under the displayed diagonal-sum convention, set on the unit circle. A Hermitian matrix then givesConsequently proves nonnegativity. Conversely the Fejér–Riesz theorem produces the rank-one spectral-factor Gram matrix. This gives a semidefinite programming representation of nonnegative trigonometric polynomials. The reversed convention instead uses the unconjugated monomial vector.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 339 3 c i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Collect the factor's coefficients in the column vector and setThis is a Hermitian matrix and a positive semidefinite matrix, because for every complex vector ,On the unit circle, expanding the modulus square givesUniqueness of the finite Laurent polynomial coefficients, proved as in part (b)(i), therefore givesThis 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 .