525 research outputs found
Reducing the size and number of linear programs in a dynamic Gr\"obner basis algorithm
The dynamic algorithm to compute a Gr\"obner basis is nearly twenty years
old, yet it seems to have arrived stillborn; aside from two initial
publications, there have been no published followups. One reason for this may
be that, at first glance, the added overhead seems to outweigh the benefit; the
algorithm must solve many linear programs with many linear constraints. This
paper describes two methods of reducing the cost substantially, answering the
problem effectively.Comment: 11 figures, of which half are algorithms; submitted to journal for
refereeing, December 201
A polyhedral approach to computing border bases
Border bases can be considered to be the natural extension of Gr\"obner bases
that have several advantages. Unfortunately, to date the classical border basis
algorithm relies on (degree-compatible) term orderings and implicitly on
reduced Gr\"obner bases. We adapt the classical border basis algorithm to allow
for calculating border bases for arbitrary degree-compatible order ideals,
which is \emph{independent} from term orderings. Moreover, the algorithm also
supports calculating degree-compatible order ideals with \emph{preference} on
contained elements, even though finding a preferred order ideal is NP-hard.
Effectively we retain degree-compatibility only to successively extend our
computation degree-by-degree. The adaptation is based on our polyhedral
characterization: order ideals that support a border basis correspond
one-to-one to integral points of the order ideal polytope. This establishes a
crucial connection between the ideal and the combinatorial structure of the
associated factor spaces
Numerical Algebraic Geometry: A New Perspective on String and Gauge Theories
The interplay rich between algebraic geometry and string and gauge theories
has recently been immensely aided by advances in computational algebra.
However, these symbolic (Gr\"{o}bner) methods are severely limited by
algorithmic issues such as exponential space complexity and being highly
sequential. In this paper, we introduce a novel paradigm of numerical algebraic
geometry which in a plethora of situations overcomes these short-comings. Its
so-called 'embarrassing parallelizability' allows us to solve many problems and
extract physical information which elude the symbolic methods. We describe the
method and then use it to solve various problems arising from physics which
could not be otherwise solved.Comment: 36 page
List Decoding Algorithm based on Voting in Groebner Bases for General One-Point AG Codes
We generalize the unique decoding algorithm for one-point AG codes over the
Miura-Kamiya Cab curves proposed by Lee, Bras-Amor\'os and O'Sullivan (2012) to
general one-point AG codes, without any assumption. We also extend their unique
decoding algorithm to list decoding, modify it so that it can be used with the
Feng-Rao improved code construction, prove equality between its error
correcting capability and half the minimum distance lower bound by Andersen and
Geil (2008) that has not been done in the original proposal except for
one-point Hermitian codes, remove the unnecessary computational steps so that
it can run faster, and analyze its computational complexity in terms of
multiplications and divisions in the finite field. As a unique decoding
algorithm, the proposed one is empirically and theoretically as fast as the BMS
algorithm for one-point Hermitian codes. As a list decoding algorithm,
extensive experiments suggest that it can be much faster for many moderate
size/usual inputs than the algorithm by Beelen and Brander (2010). It should be
noted that as a list decoding algorithm the proposed method seems to have
exponential worst-case computational complexity while the previous proposals
(Beelen and Brander, 2010; Guruswami and Sudan, 1999) have polynomial ones, and
that the proposed method is expected to be slower than the previous proposals
for very large/special inputs.Comment: Accepted for publication in J. Symbolic Computation. LaTeX2e
article.cls, 42 pages, 4 tables, no figures. Ver. 6 added an illustrative
example of the algorithm executio
Computing periods of rational integrals
A period of a rational integral is the result of integrating, with respect to
one or several variables, a rational function over a closed path. This work
focuses particularly on periods depending on a parameter: in this case the
period under consideration satisfies a linear differential equation, the
Picard-Fuchs equation. I give a reduction algorithm that extends the
Griffiths-Dwork reduction and apply it to the computation of Picard-Fuchs
equations. The resulting algorithm is elementary and has been successfully
applied to problems that were previously out of reach.Comment: To appear in Math. comp. Supplementary material at
http://pierre.lairez.fr/supp/periods
Polynomial Invariants for Affine Programs
We exhibit an algorithm to compute the strongest polynomial (or algebraic)
invariants that hold at each location of a given affine program (i.e., a
program having only non-deterministic (as opposed to conditional) branching and
all of whose assignments are given by affine expressions). Our main tool is an
algebraic result of independent interest: given a finite set of rational square
matrices of the same dimension, we show how to compute the Zariski closure of
the semigroup that they generate
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