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On the Annihilator Ideal of an Inverse Form. A Simplification

Symbolic Computation 2018-05-11 v1

Abstract

We simplify an earlier paper of the same title by not using syzygy polynomials and by not using a trichotomy of inverse forms. Let \K\K be a field and \M=\K[x1,z1]\M=\K[x^{-1},z^{-1}] denote Macaulay's \K[x,z]\K[x,z] module of inverse polynomials; here zz and z1z^{-1} are homogenising variables. An inverse form F\MF\in\M has a homogeneous annihilator ideal, \IF\I_F\,. In an earlier paper we inductively constructed an ordered pair (f1f_1\,,\,f2f_2) of forms in \K[x,z]\K[x,z] which generate \IF\I_F. We used syzygy polynomials to show that the intermediate forms give a minimal grlex Groebner basis, which can be efficiently reduced. We give a significantly shorter proof that the intermediate forms are a minimal grlex Groebner basis for \IF\I_F\,. We also simplify our proof that either F F is already reduced or a monomial of f1f_1 can be reduced by f2f_2\,. The algorithm that computes f1,f2f_1\,,f_2 yields a variant of the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm which does not use the last 'length change' approach of Massey. These new proofs avoid the three separate cases, 'triples' and the technical factorisation of intermediate 'essential' forms. We also show that f1,f2f_1,f_2 is a maximal R\R regular sequence for \IF\I_F\,, so that \IF\I_F is a complete intersection.

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@article{arxiv.1805.03995,
  title  = {On the Annihilator Ideal of an Inverse Form. A Simplification},
  author = {Graham H. Norton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.03995},
  year   = {2018}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1710.07731