Sparse polynomial arithmetic

  • Authors:
  • Stephen C. Johnson

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Telephone Labs, Murray Hill, N. J.

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSAM Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

Sparse polynomial representations are used in a number of algebraic manipulation systems, including Altran. This paper discusses the arithmetic operations with sparsely represented polynomials; we give particular attention to multiplication and division. We give new algorithms for multiplying two polynomials, with n and m terms, in time mnlogm;, these algorithms have the property that, in the usual univariate dense case, the algorithm is bounded by mn. Division algorithms are discussed which run in comparable time.