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This note describes a Macaulay2 package for handling divisors. Group operations for divisors are included. There are methods for converting divisors to reflexive or invertible sheaves. Additionally, there are methods for checking whether…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Karl Schwede , Zhaoning Yang

The Macaulay2 package DecomposableSparseSystems implements methods for studying and numerically solving decomposable sparse polynomial systems. We describe the structure of decomposable sparse systems and explain how the methods in this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Taylor Brysiewicz , Jose Israel Rodriguez , Frank Sottile , Thomas Yahl

We describe a Macaulay2 package for computing Schur complexes. This package expands on the ChainComplexOperations package by David Eisenbud.

We introduce the package combinatorics for the software CoCoA. This package provides a data structure and the necessary methods for computing several known enumerative combinatorial invariants.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Akin Scott , Michele Torielli

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 CpMackeyFunctors package for Macaulay2, which allows for computations with Mackey functors over a cyclic group of prime order.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Thomas Brazelton , David Chan , Benjamin Mudrak , Ben Spitz , Chase Vogeli , Chenglu Wang , Michael R. Zeng , Sasha Zotine

{\tt AbstractSimplicialComplexes.m2} is a computer algebra package written for the computer algebra system {\tt Macaulay2} \cite{M2}. It provides new infrastructure to work with abstract simplicial complexes and related homological…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nathan Grieve

Random variables and their distributions are a central part in many areas of statistical methods. The Distributions.jl package provides Julia users and developers tools for working with probability distributions, leveraging Julia features…

The NumericalHilbert package for Macaulay2 includes algorithms for computing local dual spaces of polynomial ideals, and related local combinatorial data about its scheme structure. These techniques are numerically stable, and can be used…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Robert Krone

We introduce the DeterminantalRepresentations package for Macaulay2, which computes definite symmetric determinantal representations of real polynomials. We focus on quadrics and plane curves of low degree (i.e. cubics and quartics). Our…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Justin Chen , Papri Dey

This article highlights the ToricHigherDirectImages package in Macaulay2. The central feature is a method for computing (higher) direct images of line bundles under surjective toric morphisms.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Sasha Zotine

A code package, BlurRing, is developed as a method to allow for multi-dimensional likelihood visualisation. From the BlurRing visualisation additional information about the likelihood can be extracted. The spread in any direction of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-05-21 Lydia Brenner , Carsten Burgard

We present the $\textit{NumericalImplicitization}$ package for $\textit{Macaulay2}$, which allows for user-friendly computation of the invariants of the image of a polynomial map, such as dimension, degree, and Hilbert function values. This…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Justin Chen , Joe Kileel

We present a package for Mathematica computer algebra system which allows the exploitation of local files as sources of random data. We provide the description of the package and illustrate its usage by showing some examples. We also…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 J. A. Miszczak , M. Wahl

We present the first general purpose framework for marginal maximum a posteriori estimation of probabilistic program variables. By using a series of code transformations, the evidence of any probabilistic program, and therefore of any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-17 Tom Rainforth , Tuan Anh Le , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Michael A. Osborne , Frank Wood

Symbolic powers are a classical commutative algebra topic that relates to primary decomposition, consisting, in some circumstances, of the functions that vanish up to a certain order on a given variety. However, these are notoriously…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Ben Drabkin , Eloísa Grifo , Alexandra Seceleanu , Branden Stone

Numerical Algebraic Geometry uses numerical data to describe algebraic varieties. It is based on the methods of numerical polynomial homotopy continuation, an alternative to the classical symbolic approaches of computational algebraic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-23 Anton Leykin

Algebraic methods have a long history in statistics. The most prominent manifestation of modern algebra in statistics can be seen in the field of algebraic statistics, which brings tools from commutative algebra and algebraic geometry to…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-27 David Kahle , Christopher O'Neill , Jeff Sommars

We introduce the ForeignFunctions package for Macaulay2, which uses libffi to provide the ability to call functions from external libraries without needing to link against them at compile time. As examples, we use the library FFTW to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Douglas A. Torrance

The Macaulay2 package NumericalSchubertCalculus provides methods for the numerical computation of Schubert problems on Grassmannians. It implements both the Pieri homotopy algorithm and the Littlewood-Richardson homotopy algorithm. Each…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Anton Leykin , Abraham Martín del Campo , Frank Sottile , Ravi Vakil , Jan Verschelde