M.eigenvalues() never returns.
On Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 11:48:47 AM UTC Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:

> What exactly fails in the example ?
>
> Le vendredi 4 février 2022 à 13:20:26 UTC+1, [email protected] a 
> écrit :
>
>>
>> On Apple Mac the example above runs on the 9.4 kernel using either the 
>> 9.4 or 9.5  interface but not on the 9.5 kernel from either Interface.
>> On Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 6:44:47 AM UTC Emmanuel Charpentier 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Le mercredi 2 février 2022 à 22:15:00 UTC+1, Nils Bruin a écrit :
>>>
>>> On Monday, 31 January 2022 at 15:19:49 UTC-8 Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As advertised, an atempt at a minimal (non-)working example :
>>>>>
>>>>> # Reproducible minimal example
>>>>> with seed(0): M = matrix(AA, 3, 3, lambda u,v: AA.random_element())
>>>>> # Working ring
>>>>> WR = M.base_ring().algebraic_closure()
>>>>> # A variable to carry the eigenvalues
>>>>> l = SR.var("l")
>>>>> # Vector of unknowns for the eigenvectors
>>>>> V =vector(list(var("v", n=2))+[SR(1)])
>>>>> # M.eigenvalues does not return. Get them by hand
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, for me on 9.5beta9, `M.eigenvalues()` works just fine.
>>>>
>>> Hmmm… You may have obtained a “less pathological” M than I did, due to 
>>> possible differences in random numbers generation (notwithstanding my 
>>> attempt at reproducibility…). 
>>>
>>> What do you get for M ? I have :
>>>
>>> sage: with seed(0): M = matrix(AA, 3, 3, lambda u,v: AA.random_element())
>>> sage: M.apply_map(lambda u:u.radical_expression())
>>> [       -sqrt(2) - 1                -1/4          -2*sqrt(3)]
>>> [                1/2  1/8*sqrt(33) + 1/8 -1/5*sqrt(29) + 3/5]
>>> [                  0                 1/4                 1/2]
>>>
>>> So the problem is perhaps just platform-dependent, or there is a very 
>>>> recent change that affected this (my M gets just integer entries from 
>>>> {-2..2})
>>>>
>>> Okay. We have a problem in reproducibility : with seed(0): should 
>>> entail a reproducible, platform-independent result. It did not. BTW, what 
>>> is your platform ?
>>>
>>> Suggestions on how to document this and file a ticket ?
>>>
>>> I agree with the rest of your conclusions, but going to numerical 
>>> approximations then trying to somehow “recognize” the algebraics they are 
>>> approximations of somehow denies the whole point of working in QQbar…
>>>
>>> Looking at the example a bit: you'd be forcing sage to work with a huge 
>>>> compositum if you're actually getting a 3x3 matrix with non-rational 
>>>> algebraic entries: even if they are just independent quadratics, you'd end 
>>>> up in an extension of degree 2^9. This will only work in very limited 
>>>> cases.
>>>>
>>>> One way to get this kind of thing to work is to work with 
>>>> high-precision floats, use numerically (fairly) stable methods to compute 
>>>> the desired answer, and then try to recognize it as algebraic. You 
>>>> probably 
>>>> only care if it is one of fairly low height. You can then try to turn your 
>>>> computation into proof, possibly by tracing through height bounds and 
>>>> showing your precision was sufficient to identify the right solution 
>>>> uniquely.
>>>>
>>>> You could work on automating this kind of thing, but I doubt you'd ever 
>>>> get it to work on a reasonable range of examples; just because the height 
>>>> bounds would be rather ill-behaved.
>>>>
>>>> You can still trace the root cause further on this and perhaps improve 
>>>> arithmetic in AA a bit, but the general shape of the problem you're trying 
>>>> to deal with does not look promising for generally performant methods. 
>>>>
>>> ​
>>>
>>

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