The intrinsic complexity of parametric elimination methods

Authors

  • J. Heintz Univesidad de Cantabria, España
  • G. Matera Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina
  • L.M. Pardo Univesidad de Cantabria, España
  • R. Wachenchauzer Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Keywords:

Polynomial system solving, elimination, complexity

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the complexity analysis of a particular property, called geometric robustness owned by all known symbolic methods of parametric polynomial equation solving (geometric elimination). It is shown that any parametric elimination procedure which owns this property must necessarily have an exponential sequential time complexity even if highly performant data structures (as e.g. the straight--line program encoding of polynomials) are used. The paper finishes with the motivated introduction of a new non-uniform complexity measure for zero-dimensional polynomial equation systems, called elimination complexity.

Research was partially supported by the following Argentinian and Spanish grants:UBA-CYT.EX.001, PIP CONICET 4571, DGICYT PB96--0671--C02--02.

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Published

1998-06-01

How to Cite

Heintz, J., Matera, G., Pardo, L., & Wachenchauzer, R. (1998). The intrinsic complexity of parametric elimination methods. SADIO Electronic Journal of Informatics and Operations Research, 1, 37-51. https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/ejs/article/view/17505