The Lax conjecture is true

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In 1958 Lax conjectured that hyperbolic polynomials in three variables are determinants of linear combinations of three symmetric matrices. This conjecture is equivalent to a recent observation of Helton and Vinnikov.
7 pages, Proceedings to the AMS, to appear. Added background material

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