Bombieri norm


In mathematics, the Bombieri norm, named after Enrico Bombieri, is a norm on homogeneous polynomials with coefficient in or . This norm has many remarkable properties, the most important being listed in this article.

Bombieri scalar product for homogeneous polynomials

To start with the geometry, the Bombieri scalar product for homogeneous polynomials with N variables can be defined as follows using multi-index notation:
by definition different monomials are orthogonal, so that
while
by definition
In the above definition and in the rest of this article the following notation applies:
if
write
and
and

Bombieri inequality

The fundamental property of this norm is the Bombieri inequality:
let be two homogeneous polynomials respectively of degree and with variables, then, the following inequality holds:
Here the Bombieri inequality is the left hand side of the above statement, while the right side means that the Bombieri norm is an algebra norm. Giving the left hand side is meaningless without that constraint, because in this case, we can achieve the same result with any norm by multiplying the norm by a well chosen factor.
This multiplicative inequality implies that the product of two polynomials is bounded from below by a quantity that depends on the multiplicand polynomials. Thus, this product can not be arbitrarily small. This multiplicative inequality is useful in metric algebraic geometry and number theory.

Invariance by isometry

Another important property is that the Bombieri norm is invariant by composition with an
isometry:
let be two homogeneous polynomials of degree with variables and let be an isometry
of . Then, the we have. When this implies.
This result follows from a nice integral formulation of the scalar product:
where is the unit sphere of with its canonical measure.

Other inequalities

Let be a homogeneous polynomial of degree with variables and let. We have:
where denotes the Euclidean norm.
The Bombieri norm is useful in polynomial factorization, where it has some advantages over the Mahler measure, according to Knuth.