Bernstein-Bezoutian matrices

  • Authors:
  • D. A. Bini;L. Gemignani

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, via Buonarroti 2, Pisa I-56127, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, via Buonarroti 2, Pisa I-56127, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Algebraic and numerical algorithm
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Several computational and structural properties of Bezoutian matrices expressed with respect to the Bernstein polynomial basis are shown. The exploitation of such properties allows the design of fast algorithms for the solution of Bernstein-Bezoutian linear systems without never making use of potentially ill-conditioned reductions to the monomial basis. In particular, we devise an algorithm for the computation of the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two polynomials in Bernstein form. A series of numerical tests are reported and discussed, which indicate that Bernstein-Bezoutian matrices are much less sensitive to perturbations of the coefficients of the input polynomials compared to other commonly used resultant matrices generated after having performed the explicit conversion between the Bernstein and the power basis.