On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:44 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Ryan Hinton<iob...@email.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are Groebner bases for multivariate polynomials over the symbolic ring
>> supposed to work?
>
> No, they are definitely not supposed to work.

I take that back.  The toy implementation should work over anything
that behaves like a field.  I guess SR is supposed to model a field,
maybe, sort of...

William


> William
>
>> Here's what I get in Sage 4.0.1.rc2:
>>
>> sage: R2.<a,b> = SR[]
>> sage: I2 = [a*b+a, a*a] * R2
>> sage: G2 = I2.groebner_basis()
>> verbose 0 (2247: multi_polynomial_ideal.py, groebner_basis) Warning:
>> falling back to very slow toy implementation.
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call
>> last)
>> ...
>> AttributeError: 'MPolynomialRing_polydict' object has no attribute
>> 'monomial_divides'
>> sage:
>>
>> I probably don't have the understanding (or time) to fix this, but I
>> wanted to make sure I'm not doing something wrong.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Ryan
>>
>> >>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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