Efficient polynomial substitutions of a sparse argument

  • Authors:
  • William H. Rowan

  • Affiliations:
  • U.C. Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSAM Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

Methods are presented for taking powers of symbolic polynomials and substituting them into univariate polynomials with scalar coefficients. It is shown that the size of the result is a sharp lower bound on the number of coefficient multiplications required to raise a completely sparse polynomial to a power. Other theoretical results prove the optimality or near-optimality of the methods given, in terms of numbers of coefficient operations, under the condition of complete sparsity of the argument.