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- From: giesl@kirmes.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Juergen Giesl)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Algorithm for Polynomial Inequalities?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:55:02 GMT
- Organization: Technical University Darmstadt
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- Sender: giesl@kirmes (Juergen Giesl)
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- Keywords: Polynomial Inequalities
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- A POLYNOMIAL INEQUATION over the natural numbers
- is a formula of the following type:
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- FOR ALL natural numbers n1,..,nk: p(n1,...,nk) > 0,
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- where p is a multivariate polynomial of any degree
- with variable coefficients p0,...,pj.
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- A mapping from {po,...,pj} to the natural numbers is a
- SOLUTION to the above inequation, if substituting each pi
- by the number it is mapped to makes the inequation true.
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- A polynomial equation and its solutions are defined analogously.
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- A solution to a set of polynomial inequations and equations
- is a mapping from all occurring variable coefficients to the
- natural numbers, which solves each inequation and each equation
- in the set.
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- _______________________________________________________
- | I am searching for an algorithm working as follows: |
- | Given a set of polynomial inequations and equations |
- | over natural numbers, |
- | it returns "solvable" or "don't know". |
- | If it returns "solvable" then there exists a solution |
- | to the set of inequations and equations. |
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- Due to Lankford the problem of deciding inequalities between
- n polynomials over the natural numbers is undecidable. (Although
- it is decidable over the real numbers).
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-
- So if anybody knows where to find an algorithm which is able to find
- a solution for a reasonably big class of these problems, please
- tell me.
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- Thank you,
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- Juergen Giesl.
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