Sparse resultant of composed polynomials I* mixed-unmixed case

  • Authors:
  • Hoon Hong;Manfred Minimair

  • Affiliations:
  • North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh;North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The main question of this paper is: What happens to sparseresultants under composition? More precisely, letf1,…, fnbe homogeneous sparse polynomials in thevariables y1,…, yn andg1,…, gn be homogeneous sparsepolynomials in the variables x1,…,xn.Let fiο(g1,…,gn) bethe sparse homogeneous polynomial obtained from fi byreplacing yj by gj. Naturally a questionarises: Is the sparse resultant off1ο(g1,…,gn),…,fn(g1,…,gn) in any way related tothe (sparse) resultants of f1,…,fn andg1,…,gn? The main contribution of thispaper is to provide an answer for the case wheng1,…,gn are unmixed, namely, Resc1,…,cn (f1 ο(g1,…,gn),…,fnο (g1,…,gn)) =Resd1,…,dn(f1,…,fn)Vol(Q)ResB(g1) where Resd1,…,dn stands for the dense(Macaulay) resultant with respect to the total degreesdi of the fi's, B stands for the unmixedsparse resultant with respect to the support B of thegj's,ResC1,…,Cn stands forthe mixed sparse resultant with respect to the naturally inducedsupports Ci of the fiο(g1,…,gn)'s, and Vol(Q) forthe normalized volume of the Newton polytope of the gj.The above expression can be applied to compute sparse resultants ofcomposed polynomials with improved efficience.