Counting decomposable multivariate polynomials

  • Authors:
  • Joachim von zur Gathen

  • Affiliations:
  • B-IT, Universität Bonn, 53113, Bonn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A polynomial f (multivariate over a field) is decomposable if $${f=g \circ h}$$ with g univariate of degree at least 2. We determine the dimension (over an algebraically closed field) of the set of decomposables, and an approximation to their number over a finite field. The relative error in our approximations is exponentially decaying in the input size.