Approximate bivariate factorization: a geometric viewpoint

  • Authors:
  • Andre Galligo;Mark van Hoeij

  • Affiliations:
  • Universite de Nice (and INRIA), France;Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 international workshop on Symbolic-numeric computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We briefly present and analyze, from a geometric viewpoint, strategies for designing algorithms to factor bivariate approximate polynomials in C[x; y]. Given a composite polynomial, stably square-free, satisfying a genericity hypothesis, we describe the effect of a perturbation on the roots of its discriminant with respect to one variable, and the perturbation of the corresponding monodromy action on a smooth fiber. A novel geometric approach is presented, based on guided projection in the parameter space and continuation method above randomly chosen loops, to reconstruct from a perturbed polynomial a nearby composite polynomial and its irreducible factors. An algorithm and its ingredients are described.