Computing canonical representatives of regular differential ideals

  • Authors:
  • François Boulier;François Lemaire

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Lille I, LIFL, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France;Université Lille I, LIFL, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • ISSAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we give three theoretical and practical contributions for solving polynomial ODE or PDE systems. The first one is practical: an algorithm which improves the purely algebraic part of Rosenfeld—Gröbner (the polynomial ODE or PDE systems simplifier which is the core of the Maple 5.5 diffalg package). It is a variant of lextriangular but does not need any Gröbner basis computation. The second one is theoretical: a characterization of the output of Rosenfeld—Gröbner and a clarification of the existing relationship between algebraic and differential characteristic sets. The third one is theoretical as well as practical: an algorithm to compute canonical representatives of differential polynomials modulo regular differential ideals without any use of Gröbner bases. This algorithm simplifies the theory (somehow a “pedagogic” contribution) but permits us also to perform easily linear algebra over the base field in the factor differential ring defined by a regular differential ideal.