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Trace test

Algebraic Geometry 2017-05-29 v3

Abstract

The trace test in numerical algebraic geometry verifies the completeness of a witness set of an irreducible variety in affine or projective space. We give a brief derivation of the trace test and then consider it for subvarieties of products of projective spaces using multihomogeneous witness sets. We show how a dimension reduction leads to a practical trace test in this case involving a curve in a low-dimensional affine space.

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@article{arxiv.1608.00540,
  title  = {Trace test},
  author = {Anton Leykin and Jose Israel Rodriguez and Frank Sottile},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00540},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures