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Application of Resultant in Computer Algebra [closed]

Can you guys give me some application of resultant in Computer Algebra, it will be amazing if you guys can give me some paper or book to read more. Thanks so much
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Resolution of singularities of the resultant locus

We consider projective space of dimension $n$ as the parameter space of degree $n$ polynomials in one variable. Then, I am interested in resolving the singularities of the "resultant locus" $...
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Library/Database of parametric polynomial systems

Could anyone please recommend a known website where I can find a database/library that has systems of polynomial equations with $n$ variables and $m$ parameters? I need some real examples to test my ...
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Resultant of linear combinations of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind

The Chebyshev polynomial $U_n(x)$ of the second kind is characterized by $$ U_n(\cos\theta)=\frac{\sin(n+1)\theta}{\sin(\theta)}. $$ It seems that $$\operatorname*{Res}_x \left( U_n(x)+tU_{n-1}(x),\...
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A variation on Abhyankar–Moh–Suzuki theorem

The well-known theorem of Abhyankar–Moh–Suzuki says the following: Let $f=f(t), g=g(t) \in k[t]$, $k$ is a field of characteristic zero. If $k[f,g]=k[t]$, then $\deg(f) \mid \deg(g)$ or $\deg(g) \mid \...
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Polynomial function defined recursively by a resultant - is it well defined?

Preliminaries Let $ n $ be an integer such that $ n \geq3 $. Denote $ \left[ n \right] \equiv \{1,2, \ldots ,n \} $. Let $ P $ be a non-empty subset of $ \left[ n \right] $ such that $ \left|P \right| ...
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Simple zeroes of complex polynomial $f(\cdot,a)$: condition on $P(a)=\operatorname{Res}_z(f,f')$

A polynomial in the complex variable $z$, whose coefficients are themselves complex polynomials in another complex variable $a$, looks like $$ f\in\Bbb C[A][Z],\;\;f(z,a)=c_0(a)+c_1(a)z+\cdots+c_n(a)z^...
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A variation on $k(x^2,x^3)=k(x)$

Let $k$ be a field of characteristic zero, for example $k=\mathbb{R}$ or $k=\mathbb{C}$. Of course, $k(x^2,x^3)=k(x)$, since $x=\frac{x^3}{x^2}$. Let $f_1,\ldots,f_n,g_1,\ldots,g_m \in k[x]$, $n,m \...
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Dimension of the set of singular hypersurfaces

Let $N$ be the number of degree $d$ monomials in $n$ variables. We can then view each non-zero point in $\mathbb{A}^N_k$ as a degree $d$ homogeneous form, $k$ an algebraically closed field. Let $X$ be ...
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Expression for the single common root

Let $ \mathbb{F} $ be a field, consider the polynomial ring $ \mathbb{F} \left[ x\right] $ and suppose that the polynomials $f,g \in \mathbb{F} \left[ x\right]$ have degrees $2,2^n$, respectively, ...
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Methods for multivariate polynomial equations over large finite fields

I am trying to get a rough overview of the best methods one might use to find solutions of multivariate polynomial equations over large finite fields. We can suppose for simplicity that the given ...
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Resultant of $f(x)$ and $f(-x)$

Let $n \geq 2$ be an integer, and let $f(x) = \prod\limits_{k = 1}^n(x - \alpha_k)$ be a monic irreducible polynomial in $\mathbb Z[x]$, with the property that $f(-\alpha_k) \neq 0$ for any $k = 1, 2, ...
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Using computer algebra to check if a family of algebras are pair-wise non-isomorphic

Given an infinite field $k$, consider a quiver $\Gamma$ with one vertex and two arrows $x,y$ and define $R=k\Gamma/(x,y)^2.$ This is a three-dimensional $k$-algebra. Now consider the additive group of ...
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Discriminant of $\alpha P(u) + (z-u) P'(u)$

I'm trying to find a “closed form” of $\textrm{Discriminant}_u(f(u))$, where $f(u) := \alpha P(u) + (z-u) P'(u)$. Here $P(u)$ is a monic polynomial of degree $d > 1$ with $u\in\mathbb{C}$, $\alpha$ ...
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Polynomial resultants restricted to intervals

The resultant of two polynomials, $R(f,g)$, is a polynomial in the coefficients of $f$ and $g$, and has the property that $R(f,g) = 0$ if and only if $f$ and $g$ share a common root (possibly in an ...
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Has vol. 3A of Cullis's "Matrices and Determinoids" been scanned and vol. 3B been archived?

This is a borderline question, but I'm going to risk posing it. Cuthbert Edmund Cullis (1875?-1955?) was a somewhat obscure British mathematician whose opus magnum was a multi-volume treatise called ...
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Polynomial defined recursively by a resultant

Cross posting from MSE. Definition: For any natural number $n\ge 3$, define the polynomial $P_{n}\left(x_1,x_2,...,x_{n-1},x_{n} \right)$, with indeterminates $x_{i}$, where $i\in\{1,2,...,n-1,n\}$, ...
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Polynomials that share at least one root

This is a generalization of an MSE question, Polynomials that share at least one root. Let $P(x)$ be a specific polynomial of degree $d$, with given real coefficients $A_i$ ($A_d=1$), and real roots: ...
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An explicit formula for characteristic polynomial of matrix tensor product [closed]

Consider two polynomials P and Q and their companion matrices. It seems that char polynomial of tensor product of said matrices would be a polynomial with roots that are all possible pairs product of ...
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Division of bivariate polynomials

The following theorem (lemma 4.2.18 on page 97) is proven in thesis "Computationally efficient Error-Correcting Codes and Holographic Proofs" by Daniel Alan Spielman: Let $E(X, Y)$ be a polynomial ...
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Final step in Coppersmith?

In the final step in Coppersmith technique we have $n$ polynomials (possibly non-homogeneous) in $\mathbb Z[x_1,\dots,x_m]$ where $m\leq n$ and using elimination theory we extract the common integer ...
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Resultants for compactly represented product form polynomials?

Typically computing resultnt of $n+1$ different $n+1$-variate homogeneous polynomials takes $O(poly(\prod_{i=1}^{d_{i}}))$ time where $d_i$ is degree of $i$th polynomial. In certain cases the ...
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Intersection number of two projective curves using the resultant and tangent lines

For my thesis, I'm working on the intersection of projective plane curves over $\mathbb{C}$. We define the intersection number of projective plane curves (see for example Gibson - Elementary Geometry ...
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Efficient algorithm to compute resultants of sparse polynomials?

Consider two polynomials $f,g\in\mathbb{F}_2$ of degree $O(2^n)$, with the property that they are extremely sparse (say, only $O(n)$ of the coefficients are non-zero). Is there a way to calculate ...
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Irreducibility of the Sylvester resultant

If $r$ and $s$ are positive integers, $R$ a commutative ring and $a_0,\dots,a_r$, $b_0,\dots,b_s$ independent variables, we can consider the polynomials $f=\sum_{i=0}^ra_iX^i$ and $g=\sum_{j=0}^sb_iX^...
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Solutions to a certain Birkhoff-interpolation problem

$\newcommand{\CC}{\mathbb{C}}$ Let for $n > 1$ and $m = n-1$ $$ p = x^n + a_1 x^{n-1} + \cdots + a_m x $$ be a polynomial with $a_i \in \CC$. Call $p^{(i)}(x) = \frac{d^ip}{dx^i}(x)$. The ...
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Gröbner bases of resultants and their monomial ideals

$\newcommand{QQ}{\mathbb{Q}}$ Consider the ring $R = \QQ[x, a_1,\ldots,a_m]$ for a certain integer $m$ and the homogeneous polynomial $$ f = x^{m+1} + \sum_{i=1}^m a_i^i x^{m+1 - i} $$ Now let $$ ...
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Splitting the Resultant, as when the Determinant becomes the square of the Pfaffian

The Determinant of an $n\times n$ matrix, viewed as a polynomial in the entries, is irreducible. But when it is restricted to the subspace of alternate matrices, it becomes reducible, actually the ...
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Determinant is to Pfaffian as resultant is to what?

This is an irresponsible question: I do not have done any thinking on it, or even literature search. I just became curious whether there is some modification of the notion of a common root of two ...
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What is the essence of the constant factor in the standard definitions of the discriminant?

Let $f(x) = x^m+\sum_{j=0}^{m-1}f_{m-j}x^j\in P[x]$ be a monic polynomial over a field $P$ and let $f(x) = (x-\alpha_1)\cdot\ldots\cdot(x-\alpha_m)$ be a factorization of $f$ over an extension field $...
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Resultant of two special trinomials

Consider $f(x)=x^n-x^s-1$ and $g(x)=x^i-x^j-1$ , I want to find $Resultant(f,g)$. It is well known that it is determinant of a Sylvester matrix but, I am finding it to obscure to evaluate in that way. ...
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How to find solutions for four polynomial equations with four unknown variables using Resultant Theory

Can I use resultant theory (or polynomial resultant method) to find solutions for four simultaneous polynomial equations with four unknown variables? So far, I could only find examples which uses two ...
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GPS calculations under $L^p$ norms

GPS calculations require finding a sphere externally tangent to four given spheres, an Apollonian problem in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The center of that fifth sphere is one of the $16$ possible solutions to ...
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Irreducibility of a resultant of real and imaginary parts of a characteristic polynomial

The following question is motivated by the study of a stability border for a robust linear time-invariant control system. Let us we have an affine family of $n\times n$ matrices with indeterminate ($\...
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Combinatorics of resultants

This is a crosspost of https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/446470/combinatorics-of-resultants which received no answer. [EDIT: I deleted the initial copy of the question on MathSE]. Let $f(z)=\...
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Resultant of system with 3 polynomials and 3 variables

Let us say I have a system of 3 polynomials, f1(x,y,z), f2(x,y,z), f3(x,y,z). How to find the resultant of these 3 polynomials? What I mean is: is there any special method to do this? Does the ...
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The resultant of two degree n and n - 1 functions in two variables of t

I'm currently studying the implicitization of bezier curves (that is, finding a function that f(x, y) = 0 for any x and y pairs of a curve p(t)) as part of an algorithm for curve intersection. The ...
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When is the Wendt binomial circulant determinant divisible by 3?

The Wendt binomial circulant determinant $W_n$ can be defined quite simply as a resultant: $$ W_n = \operatorname{res}(x^n-1, (x+1)^n-1). $$ Truer to its name, one may also define it as the ...
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Multipolynomial resultants

We know that the resultant of two polynomials can be computed as the determinant of their Sylvester matrix ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_matrix ). How do we compute the resultant of more ...
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