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Title: Generalized characteristic sets and new multivariate difference dimension polynomials
We introduce a new type of characteristic sets of difference polynomials using a generalization of the concept of effective order to the case of partial difference polynomials and a partition of the basic set of translations σ. Using properties of these characteristic sets, we prove the existence and outline a method of computation of a multivariate dimension polynomial of a finitely generated difference field extension that describes the transcendence degrees of intermediate fields obtained by adjoining transforms of the generators whose orders with respect to the components of the partition of σ are bounded by two sequences of natural numbers. We show that such dimension polynomials carry essentially more invariants (that is, characteristics of the extension that do not depend on the set of its difference generators) than previously known difference dimension polynomials. In particular, a dimension polynomial of the new type associated with a system of algebraic difference equations gives more information about the system than the classical univariate difference dimension polynomial.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2139462
PAR ID:
10501331
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Publisher / Repository:
Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing
Volume:
35
Issue:
1
ISSN:
0938-1279
Page Range / eLocation ID:
31 to 53
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Difference polynomials Effective order Characteristic set Dimension polynomial.
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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