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Title: Some Properties and Invariants of Multivariate Difference-Differential Dimension Polynomials.
Multivariate dimension polynomials associated with finitely generated differential and difference field extensions arise as natural generalizations of the univariate differential and difference dimension polynomials. It turns out, however, that they carry more information about the corresponding extensions than their univariate counterparts. We extend the known results on multivariate dimension polynomials to the case of difference-differential field extensions with arbitrary partitions of sets of basic operators. We also describe some properties of multivariate dimension polynomials and their invariants.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1714425
NSF-PAR ID:
10066959
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Journal Name:
Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra - ACA 2018
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Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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