OpenMath is an extensible standard for representing the semantics of mathematical objects.
OpenMath is an extensible standard for representing the semantics of mathematical objects.
This CD contains operators to deal with polynomials and more precisely Distributed Multivariate Polynomials.
Original OpenMath v1.1 Poly 1997 Update to Current Format 1999-07-07 DPC Move the names of rings to setname.ocd 1999-11-09 JHD Delete those items moved to the new poly.ocd 1999-11-14 JHD Move items pertaining to orderings to polyd2 and those involving Groebner bases to polygb1 and polygb2. 2004-07-07 AMC Comments also edited by AMC
This is our attempt at defining a first Content Dictionary to deal with polynomials. There are many possible choices for a polynomial CD, and several questions to answer. 1. Representation issues One of the interests of OM is certainly to enable the use of specialized servers. It is important to promote the writing of OM-compliant servers by placing as few constraints as possible on the programmers of these packages. This CD has been designed with the idea that it could be simple to use for a server dealing only with polynomial computations. Hence we have used a particular representation for polynomials (distributed with dense monomials). This representation is rather abstract in the sense that it does not introduce names for variables. It explicitly contains the polynomial ring a polynomial belongs to as the set of the coefficients and the number of variables. It seems (from our experience) that this information is necessary for most specialized servers. Expressing constraints on the structure of OM objects made from the symbols in this CD is not always easy. One of the main reason is that a symbol such as "gcd" is meant to denote the GCD of a set of polynomials, no matter how the polynomials are represented. Such a function should thus accept both "symbolic" arguments (a list of symbolic object meant to be polynomials) and the polynomials in the specific representation defined in this CD. Of course, another solution will be to have one "gcd" for one (or several) particular representation and another "gcd" to express the general notion of polynomial "gcd". A question which is not entirely answered is whether or not it is interesting to have "symbolic" objects inside some constructors (such as a power which is not an OM integer in "Monom" or a symbolic "poly_ring_d" (a variable) as an argument of "DMP"). We explicitly forbid that in the first version of this CD. 2. Specifying some "computational behaviour" Of course it would be of no use to exactly specify the behaviour of any OM application that receives an OM object. There are (at least) two reasons for that: - an OM object is intended to represent a mathematical object and thus the same OM object could be sent to a typesetter as well as to a symbolic computation system, - even when dealing with programs that compute, exact specifications could be impossible or too much constraining for a given system. On the other hand, we believe that one of the goals of OM is certainly that a program needing to factorize an integer could transparently use Maple, Axiom or Pari to do the job. This is of course possible only if all severs that "implement" (in the sense of really performing) the mathematical notion of integer factorization answer in a similar way. In other words, we should not hesitate to specify what a particulary useful class of OM applications (the "computing" ones) should return (the form of the result) everytime compliance to this specification is simple enough because it is obviously very useful. We have tried to express this idea in the polydx CDs through some comments and the use of symbols such as "factored" or "groebner_basis" that describe the required results of some functions. The general "compliance" rule can be stated as: an OM application that understands this CD and implements some of the polynomials operation described is required to implement them using the constructors defined in this CD, as indicated in the comments associated with the operations. This means that if the OM version of a computer algebra system claims to implement polynomial factorization, another application can send him an OM object as described in the "factor" comment (the symbol "factor" applied to one argument, a DMP) and the result will be return as defined: a "factored" symbol whose arguments are described in the corresponding entry of the poly CD.
Definition of data-structure constructors
The polynomial x^2*y^6 + 3*y^5 can be encoded as
DMP(poly_ring_d(Z, 2), SDMP(term(1, 2, 6), term(3, 0, 5)))
The polynomial 2*y^3*z^5 + x + 1 can be
DMP(poly_ring_d(Q, 3),
SDMP(term(2, 0, 3, 5), term(1, 1, 0, 0), term(1, 0, 0, 0)))
Note that these are not real encodings but a "term-like" encoding (whose
understanding should be trivial) meant for the human readers of this
dictionary. Of course, actual encodings can be more compact...
The constructor of DMPs. The first argument is the polynomial ring containing the polynomial and the second is a "SDMP". Should be of the form DMP(poly_ring_d(...), SDMP(...))
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This is a unary function, whose argument should be a DMP f. When applied to f, it represents the first argument of f, that is, ring of the form poly_ring_d(...) used to define f.
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This is a unary function, whose argument can be a DMP, a poly_ring_d, or a poly_ring_d_named. When applied to its argument, it represents the number of variables of the polynomial ring involved.
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This is a unary function, whose argument is a poly_ring_d_named. When applied to its argument, it represents the list of variables of the polynomial ring.
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The constructor for lists of multivariate polynomial members of the same polynomial ring. The first argument is a polynomial ring and the rest are "SDMP"s. DMPL can be attributed with the "ordering" symbol to indicate a particular ordering for monomials of all its polynomials. Should be of the form DMPL(poly_ring_d(...), SDMP(...)+)
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The constructor for multivariate polynomials without any indication of variables or domain for the coefficients. Its arguments are just "monomial"s. No monomials should differ only by the coefficient (i.e it is not permitted to have both "2*x*y" and "x*y" as monomials in a SDMP). SDMP can be attributed with the "ordering" symbol to indicate a particular ordering of its monomials. This attribute shall not be set if the SDMP is part of DMPL that has this attribute set.
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The constructor of monomials. Valid applications are of the form Term(coeff, exp1, exp2, ... expn) which represents the monomial coeff * var1^exp1*...varn^expn where n is the number of variables, expi are non-negative integers.
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Polynomial rings constructors
The constructor of polynomial ring. The first argument is a ring (the ring of the coefficients), the second is the number of variables as an integer.
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The constructor of polynomial ring. The first argument is a ring (the ring of the coefficients), the remaining arguments are the names of the variables. The first variable given is the most important from the point of view of lexicographic ordering, then the second, and so on.
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Indicates a variable that we do not want to name
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Definition of operations
The sum. The argument is a DMPL. The sum lies within the same "poly_ring_d", i.e., a program implementing this operation should return a DMP with the same "poly_ring_d".
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The sum. The argument is a DMPL. The sum lies within the same "poly_ring_d", i.e., a program implementing this operation should return a DMP with the same "poly_ring_d".
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The product. The argument is a DMPL. The product lies within the same "poly_ring_d", i.e., a program implementing this operation should return a DMP with the same "poly_ring_d".
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The power. First argument is a DMP, second argument is the integer power. The power lies within the same "poly_ring_d", i.e., a program implementing this operation should return a DMP with the same "poly_ring_d".
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