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Symmetric Matrices & Quadratic Forms · Superchallenge problem

On the 4-dimensional space of real polynomials of degree at most 33 define the quadratic form Q(p)=∫−11p(t) p(−t) dtQ(p) = \displaystyle\int_{-1}^{1}p(t)\,p(-t)\,dt. How many negative eigenvalues does its matrix in the basis 1,t,t2,t31, t, t^2, t^3 have?