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A Signature-based Algorithm for Computing the Nondegenerate Locus of a Polynomial System

Symbolic Computation 2023-06-12 v2

Abstract

Polynomial system solving arises in many application areas to model non-linear geometric properties. In such settings, polynomial systems may come with degeneration which the end-user wants to exclude from the solution set. The nondegenerate locus of a polynomial system is the set of points where the codimension of the solution set matches the number of equations. Computing the nondegenerate locus is classically done through ideal-theoretic operations in commutative algebra such as saturation ideals or equidimensional decompositions to extract the component of maximal codimension. By exploiting the algebraic features of signature-based Gr\"obner basis algorithms we design an algorithm which computes a Gr\"obner basis of the equations describing the closure of the nondegenerate locus of a polynomial system, without computing first a Gr\"obner basis for the whole polynomial system.

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@article{arxiv.2202.13784,
  title  = {A Signature-based Algorithm for Computing the Nondegenerate Locus of a Polynomial System},
  author = {Christian Eder and Pierre Lairez and Rafael Mohr and Mohab Safey El Din},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13784},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

22 pages, 2 figures. Substantial rewrite of content of the parts of the paper involving signature-based Gr\"obner basis algorithms, both the exposition and the description of the core algorithm of the paper changed

R2 v1 2026-06-24T09:56:18.988Z