Factoring bivariate lacunary polynomials without heights

  • Authors:
  • Arkadev Chattopadhyay;Bruno Grenet;Pascal Koiran;Natacha Portier;Yann Strozecki

  • Affiliations:
  • Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India;École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France;École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France;École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France;Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, Versailles, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 38th international symposium on International symposium on symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present an algorithm which computes the multilinear factors of bivariate lacunary polynomials. It is based on a new Gap theorem which allows to test whether P(X)=∑kj=1 αjXαj(1+X)βjis identically zero in polynomial time. The algorithm we obtain is more elementary than the one by Kaltofen and Koiran (ISSAC'05) since it relies on the valuation of polynomials of the previous form instead of the height of the coefficients. As a result, it can be used to find some linear factors of bivariate lacunary polynomials over a field of large finite characteristic in probabilistic polynomial time.