Algorithm 921: alphaCertified: Certifying Solutions to Polynomial Systems

  • Authors:
  • Jonathan D. Hauenstein;Frank Sottile

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M University;Texas A&M University

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Smale’s α-theory uses estimates related to the convergence of Newton’s method to certify that Newton iterations will converge quadratically to solutions to a square polynomial system. The program alphaCertified implements algorithms based on α-theory to certify solutions of polynomial systems using both exact rational arithmetic and arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic. It also implements algorithms that certify whether a given point corresponds to a real solution, and algorithms to heuristically validate solutions to overdetermined systems. Examples are presented to demonstrate the algorithms.