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CylindricalAlgebraicDecomposition.m2 is the first implementation of Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) in Macaulay2. CAD decomposes space into 'cells' where input polynomials are sign-invariant. This package computes an Open CAD…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Corin Lee , Tereso del Río , Hamid Rahkooy

Using the geometric vertex decomposition property first defined by Knutson, Miller, and Yong, a recursive definition for geometrically vertex decomposable ideals was given by Klein and Rajchgot. We introduce the Macaulay2 package…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Mike Cummings , Adam Van Tuyl

Cycle polytopes of matroids have been introduced in combinatorial optimization as a generalization of important classes of polyhedral objects like cut polytopes and Eulerian subgraph polytopes associated to graphs. Here we start an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Tim Römer , Sara Saeedi Madani

The well-known problem stated by A. Meir and L. Moser consists in tiling the unit square with rectangles (details), whose side lengths equal $1/n\times 1/(n+1)$, where indices~$n$ range from 1 to infinity. Recently, Terence Tao has proved…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 A. D. Kislovskiy , E. Yu. Lerner , I. A. Senkevich

We introduce the VirtualResolution package for the computer algebra system Macaulay2. This package has tools to construct, display, and study virtual resolutions for products of projective spaces. The package also has tools for generating…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Ayah Almousa , Juliette Bruce , Michael C. Loper , Mahrud Sayrafi

Solving optimization problems is a key task for which quantum computers could possibly provide a speedup over the best known classical algorithms. Particular classes of optimization problems including semi-definite programming (SDP) and…

We introduce the Brackets package for the computer algebra system Macaulay2, which provides convenient syntax for computations involving the classical invariants of the special linear group. We describe our implementation of bracket rings…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Dalton Bidleman , Timothy Duff , Jack Kendrick , Michael Zeng

In the first part of this paper we study scrollers and linearly joined varieties. A particular class of varieties, of important interest in classical Geometry are Cohen--Macaulay varieties of minimal degree. They appear naturally studying…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Marcel Morales

In this article we show how to compute a matrix representation and the implicit equation by means of the method developed in [Botbol: arXiv:1007.3437], using the computer algebra system Macaulay2 \cite{M2}. As it is probably the most…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-22 Nicolas Botbol

Yannakakis' theorem relating the extension complexity of a polytope to the size of a nonnegative factorization of its slack matrix is a seminal result in the study of lifts of convex sets. Inspired by this result and the importance of lifts…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-23 João Gouveia , Amy Wiebe

This is an expository version of our paper [arXiv:1902.07384]. Our aim is to present recent Macaulay2 algorithms for computation of mixed multiplicities of ideals in a Noetherian ring which is either local or a standard graded algebra over…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Kriti Goel , Vivek Mukundan , Sudeshna Roy , J. K. Verma

The \texttt{StronglyStableIdeals} package for \textit{Macaulay2} provides a method to compute all saturated strongly stable ideals in a given polynomial ring with a fixed Hilbert polynomial. A description of the main method and auxiliary…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Davide Alberelli , Paolo Lella

The Macaulay2 package Cremona performs some computations on rational and birational maps between irreducible projective varieties. For instance, it provides methods to compute degrees and projective degrees of rational maps without any…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Giovanni Staglianò

We introduce a Macaulay2 package for working with jet schemes. The main method constructs jets of ideals, polynomial rings and their quotients, ring homomorphisms, affine varieties, and (hyper)graphs. The package also includes additional…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Federico Galetto , Nicholas Iammarino

In this paper we characterize the slack matrices of cones and polytopes among all nonnegative matrices. This leads to an algorithm for deciding whether a given matrix is a slack matrix. The underlying decision problem is equivalent to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-25 João Gouveia , Roland Grappe , Volker Kaibel , Kanstantsin Pashkovich , Richard Z. Robinson , Rekha R. Thomas

The main goal of this paper is to give a general method to compute (via computer algebra systems) an explicit set of generators of the ideals of the projective embeddings of some ruled surfaces, namely projective line bundles over curves…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alberto Alzati , Fabio Tonoli

We examine implicit representations of parametric or point cloud models, based on interpolation matrices, which are not sensitive to base points. We show how interpolation matrices can be used for ray shooting of a parametric ray with a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Christos Konaxis , Ilias S. Kotsireas , Clement Laroche

In this paper we show how to construct inner and outer convex approximations of a polytope from an approximate cone factorization of its slack matrix. This provides a robust generalization of the famous result of Yannakakis that polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-04 João Gouveia , Pablo A. Parrilo , Rekha R. Thomas

The Macaulay2 package PHCpack.m2 provides an interface to PHCpack, a general-purpose polynomial system solver that uses homotopy continuation. The main method is a numerical blackbox solver which is implemented for all Laurent systems. The…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Elizabeth Gross , Sonja Petrović , Jan Verschelde

We introduce the package \texttt{EliminationTemplates} for the Macaulay2 computer algebra system, which provides tools for constructing automatic solvers for families of zero-dimensional radical ideals depending on algebraically independent…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Manav Batavia , Cheng Chen , Anna Natalie Chlopecki , Timothy Duff , William Huang , Aolong Li , Wanchun Shen