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On Newton-polytope-type sufficiency conditions for coercivity of polynomials

We identify new sufficiency conditions for coercivity of general multivariate polynomials $f\in\mathbb{R}[x]$ which are expressed in terms of their Newton polytopes at infinity and which consist of a system of affine-linear inequalities in the space of polynomial coefficients. By sharpening the already existing necessary conditions for coercivity for a class of gem irregular polynomials we provide a characterization of coercivity of circuit polynomials, which extends the known results on this well studied class of polynomials. For the already existing sufficiency conditions for coercivity which contain a description involving a set projection operation, we identify an equivalent description involving a single posynomial inequality. This makes them more easy to apply and hence also more appealing from the practical perspective. We relate our results to the existing literature and we illustrate our results with several examples.