Multiplicities of Noetherian deformations

The \emph{Noetherian class} is a wide class of functions defined in terms of polynomial partial differential equations. It includes functions appearing naturally in various branches of mathematics (exponential, elliptic, modular, etc.). A conjecture by Khovanskii states that the \emph{local} geometry of sets defined using Noetherian equations admits effective estimates analogous to the effective \emph{global} bounds of algebraic geometry. We make a major step in the development of the theory of Noetherian functions by providing an effective upper bound for the local number of isolated solutions of a Noetherian system of equations depending on a parameter $\epsilon$, which remains valid even when the system degenerates at $\epsilon=0$. An estimate of this sort has played the key role in the development of the theory of Pfaffian functions, and is expected to lead to similar results in the Noetherian setting. We illustrate this by deducing from our main result an effective form of the Lojasiewicz inequality for Noetherian functions.Comment: v2: reworked last section, accepted to GAF

Finite-order meromorphic solutions and the discrete Painleve equations

Let w(z) be a finite-order meromorphic solution of the second-order difference equation w(z+1)+w(z-1) = R(z,w(z)) (eqn 1) where R(z,w(z)) is rational in w(z) and meromorphic in z. Then either w(z) satisfies a difference linear or Riccati equation or else equation (1) can be transformed to one of a list of canonical difference equations. This list consists of all known difference Painleve equation of the form (1), together with their autonomous versions. This suggests that the existence of finite-order meromorphic solutions is a good detector of integrable difference equations.Comment: 34 page

On isolation of singular zeros of multivariate analytic systems

We give a separation bound for an isolated multiple root $x$ of a square multivariate analytic system $f$ satisfying that an operator deduced by adding $Df(x)$ and a projection of $D^2f(x)$ in a direction of the kernel of $Df(x)$ is invertible. We prove that the deflation process applied on $f$ and this kind of roots terminates after only one iteration. When $x$ is only given approximately, we give a numerical criterion for isolating a cluster of zeros of $f$ near $x$. We also propose a lower bound of the number of roots in the cluster.Comment: 17 page

List decoding of a class of affine variety codes

Consider a polynomial $F$ in $m$ variables and a finite point ensemble $S=S_1 \times ... \times S_m$. When given the leading monomial of $F$ with respect to a lexicographic ordering we derive improved information on the possible number of zeros of $F$ of multiplicity at least $r$ from $S$. We then use this information to design a list decoding algorithm for a large class of affine variety codes.Comment: 11 pages, 5 table