In mathematics, the Bombieri norm, named after Enrico Bombieri, is a norm on homogeneous polynomials with coefficient in
or
(there is also a version for univariate polynomials). Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Enrico Bombieri (born November 26, 1940) is an Italian Mathematician, born in Milan. In Linear algebra, Functional analysis and related areas of Mathematics, a norm is a function that assigns a strictly positive length In Mathematics, a homogeneous polynomial is a Polynomial whose terms are Monomials all having the same total degree; or are elements of the same This norm has many remarkable properties, the most important being listed in this article.
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This norm comes from a scalar product which can be defined as follows:
we have
if 
we define 
In the above definition and in the rest of this article we use the following notation:
if
, we write
and
and 
The most remarkable property of this norm is the Bombieri inequality:
let P,Q be two homogeneous polynomials respectively of degree
and
with N variables, then, the following inequality holds:

In fact Bombieri inequality is the left hand side of the above statement, the right and side means that Bombieri norm is a norm of algebra (giving only the left hand side is meaningless, because in this case, we can achieve the same result with any norm by multiplying the norm by a well chosen factor). In Mathematics, a homogeneous polynomial is a Polynomial whose terms are Monomials all having the same total degree; or are elements of the same
This result means that the product of two polynomials can not be arbitrarily small and this is fundamental.
Another important property is that the Bombieri norm is invariant by composition with an isometry:
let P,Q be two homogeneous polynomials of degree d with N variables and let h be an isometry of
(or
). For the Mechanical engineering and Architecture usage see Isometric projection. Then, the we have
. When P = Q this implies
.
This result follows from a nice integral formulation of the scalar product:

where SN is the unit sphere of
with its canonical mesure dσ(Z).
Let P be a homogeneous polynomial of degree d with N variables and let
. We have:


where | | . | | E denotes the euclidian norm.