Derivations and radicals of polynomial ideals over fields of arbitrary characteristic

  • Authors:
  • E. Fortuna;P. Gianni;B. Trager

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, via Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, via Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy;IBM Research, Route 134, Yorktown Heights, NY

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation - Computer algebra: Selected papers from ISSAC 2001
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to give a complete effective solution to the problem of computing radicals of polynomial ideals over general fields of arbitrary characteristic. We prove that Seidenberg's "Condition P" is both a necessary and sufficient property of the coefficient field in order to be able to perform this computation. Since Condition P is an expensive additional requirement on the ground field, we use derivations and ideal quotients to recover as much of the radical as possible. If we have a basis for the vector space of derivations on our ground field, then the problem of computing radicals can be reduced to computing pth roots of elements in finite dimensional algebras.