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TitleOn the intrinsic complexity of elimination theory
Author(s) Joos Heintz, Jacques Morgenstern
TypeArticle in Journal
AbstractWe consider the intrinsic complexity of selected algorithmic problems of classical elimination theory in algebraic geometry. The inputs and outputs of these problems are given by finite sets of polynomials which we represent alternatively in dense form or by straight line programs. We begin with an overview on the known upper bounds for the sequential and parallel time complexity of these problems and show then that in the most important cases these bounds are tight. Our lower bound results include both the relative and the absolute viewpoint of complexity theory. On one side we give reductions of fundamental questions of elimination theory to NP- and P#-complete problems and on the other side we show that some of these questions may have exponential size outputs. In this way we confirm the intrinsically exponential character of algorithmic problems in elimination theory whatever the type of data structure may be.
ISSN0885-064X
URL dx.doi.org/10.1006/jcom.1993.1031
LanguageEnglish
JournalJournal of Complexity
Volume9
Number4
Pages471-498
PublisherAcademic Press, Inc.
AddressOrlando, FL, USA
Year1993
MonthDecember
Translation No
Refereed No
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