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Teresa Krick

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Sylvester's Double Sums: the general case

In 1853 Sylvester introduced a family of double sum expressions for two finite sets of indeterminates and showed that some members of the family are essentially the polynomial subresultants of the monic polynomials associated with these sets. A question naturally arises: What are the other members of the family? This paper provides a complete answer to this question. The technique that we developed to answer the question turns out to be general enough to charactise all members of the family, providing a uniform method.

math.AC↗

A Numerical Algorithm for Zero Counting. I: Complexity and Accuracy

We describe an algorithm to count the number of distinct real zeros of a polynomial (square) system f. The algorithm performs O(n D kappa(f)) iterations where n is the number of polynomials (as well as the dimension of the ambient space), D is a bound on the polynomials' degree, and kappa(f) is a condition number for the system. Each iteration uses an exponential number of operations. The algorithm uses finite-precision arithmetic and a polynomial bound for the precision required to ensure the returned output is correct is exhibited. This bound is a major feature of our algorithm since it is in contrast with the exponential precision required by the existing (symbolic) algorithms for counting real zeros. The algorithm parallelizes well in the sense that each iteration can be computed in parallel polynomial time with an exponential number of processors.

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An Elementary Proof of Sylvester's Double Sums for Subresultants

In 1853 Sylvester stated and proved an elegant formula that expresses the polynomial subresultants in terms of the roots of the input polynomials. Sylvester's formula was also recently proved by Lascoux and Pragacz by using multi-Schur functions and divided differences. In this paper, we provide an elementary proof that uses only basic properties of matrix multiplication and Vandermonde determinants.

math.AC↗

Factoring bivariate sparse (lacunary) polynomials

We present a deterministic algorithm for computing all irreducible factors of degree $\le d$ of a given bivariate polynomial $f\in K[x,y]$ over an algebraic number field $K$ and their multiplicities, whose running time is polynomial in the bit length of the sparse encoding of the input and in $d$. Moreover, we show that the factors over $\Qbarra$ of degree $\le d$ which are not binomials can also be computed in time polynomial in the sparse length of the input and in $d$.

math.NT↗

Newton-Hensel Interpolation Lifting

The main result of this paper is a new version of Newton-Hensel lifting that relates to interpolation questions. It allows one to lift polynomials in $Z[x]$ from information modulo a prime number $p\ne 2$ to a power $p^k$ for any $k$, and its originality is that it is a mixed version that not only lifts the coefficients of the polynomial but also its exponents. We show that this result corresponds exactly to a Newton-Hensel lifting of a system of $2t$ generalized equations in $2t$ unknowns in the ring of $p$-adic integers $\Z_p$. Finally we apply our results to sparse polynomial interpolation in $\Z[x]$

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Multivariate Subresultants in Roots

We give rational expressions for the subresultants of n+1 generic polynomials f_1,..., f_{n+1} in n variables as a function of the coordinates of the common roots of f_1,..., f_n and their evaluation in f_{n+1}. We present a simple technique to prove our results, giving new proofs and generalizing the classical Poisson product formula for the projective resultant, as well as the expressions of Hong for univariate subresultants in roots.

math.AG↗

The computational complexity of the Chow form

We present a bounded probability algorithm for the computation of the Chow forms of the equidimensional components of an algebraic variety. Its complexity is polynomial in the length and in the geometric degree of the input equation system defining the variety. In particular, it provides an alternative algorithm for the equidimensional decomposition of a variety. As an application we obtain an algorithm for the computation of a subclass of sparse resultants, whose complexity is polynomial in the dimension and the volume of the input set of exponents. As a further application, we derive an algorithm for the computation of the (unique) solution of a generic over-determined equation system.

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Sharp estimates for the arithmetic Nullstellensatz

We present sharp estimates for the degree and the height of the polynomials in the Nullstellensatz over $\Z$. The result improves previous work of Philippon, Berenstein-Yger and Krick-Pardo. We also present degree and height estimates of intrinsic type, which depend mainly on the degree and the height of the input polynomial system. As an application, we derive an effective arithmetic Nullstellensatz for sparse polynomial systems. The proof of these results relies heavily on the notion of local height of an affine variety defined over a number field. We introduce this notion and study its basic properties.

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