Lengths of Roots of Polynomials in a Hahn Field

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
J. F. Knight ◽  
K. Lange
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Diogo Freitas ◽  
Luiz Guerreiro Lopes ◽  
Fernando Morgado-Dias

Finding arbitrary roots of polynomials is a fundamental problem in various areas of science and engineering. A myriad of methods was suggested to address this problem, such as the sequential Newton’s method and the Durand–Kerner (D–K) simultaneous iterative method. The sequential iterative methods, on the one hand, need to use a deflation procedure in order to compute approximations to all the roots of a given polynomial, which can produce inaccurate results due to the accumulation of rounding errors. On the other hand, the simultaneous iterative methods require good initial guesses to converge. However, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are widely known by their capacity to find complex mappings between the dependent and independent variables. In view of this, this paper aims to determine, based on comparative results, whether ANNs can be used to compute approximations to the real and complex roots of a given polynomial, as an alternative to simultaneous iterative algorithms like the D–K method. Although the results are very encouraging and demonstrate the viability and potentiality of the suggested approach, the ANNs were not able to surpass the accuracy of the D–K method. The results indicated, however, that the use of the approximations computed by the ANNs as the initial guesses for the D–K method can be beneficial to the accuracy of this method.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-137
Author(s):  
Christoph Schwarzweller

Summary This is the second part of a four-article series containing a Mizar [2], [1] formalization of Kronecker’s construction about roots of polynomials in field extensions, i.e. that for every field F and every polynomial p ∈ F [X]\F there exists a field extension E of F such that p has a root over E. The formalization follows Kronecker’s classical proof using F [X]/<p> as the desired field extension E [5], [3], [4]. In the first part we show that an irreducible polynomial p ∈ F [X]\F has a root over F [X]/<p>. Note, however, that this statement cannot be true in a rigid formal sense: We do not have F ⊆ [X]/ < p > as sets, so F is not a subfield of F [X]/<p>, and hence formally p is not even a polynomial over F [X]/ < p >. Consequently, we translate p along the canonical monomorphism ϕ : F → F [X]/<p> and show that the translated polynomial ϕ (p) has a root over F [X]/<p>. Because F is not a subfield of F [X]/<p> we construct in this second part the field (E \ ϕF )∪F for a given monomorphism ϕ : F → E and show that this field both is isomorphic to F and includes F as a subfield. In the literature this part of the proof usually consists of saying that “one can identify F with its image ϕF in F [X]/<p> and therefore consider F as a subfield of F [X]/<p>”. Interestingly, to do so we need to assume that F ∩ E = ∅, in particular Kronecker’s construction can be formalized for fields F with F ∩ F [X] = ∅. Surprisingly, as we show in the third part, this condition is not automatically true for arbitray fields F : With the exception of 𝕑2 we construct for every field F an isomorphic copy F′ of F with F′ ∩ F′ [X] ≠ ∅. We also prove that for Mizar’s representations of 𝕑n, 𝕈 and 𝕉 we have 𝕑n ∩ 𝕑n[X] = ∅, 𝕈 ∩ 𝕈 [X] = ∅ and 𝕉 ∩ 𝕉 [X] = ∅, respectively. In the fourth part we finally define field extensions: E is a field extension of F iff F is a subfield of E. Note, that in this case we have F ⊆ E as sets, and thus a polynomial p over F is also a polynomial over E. We then apply the construction of the second part to F [X]/<p> with the canonical monomorphism ϕ : F → F [X]/<p>. Together with the first part this gives - for fields F with F ∩ F [X] = ∅ - a field extension E of F in which p ∈ F [X]\F has a root.


2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-165
Author(s):  
J. F. Knight ◽  
K. Lange
Keyword(s):  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Obsieger

Textbook of several universities. 2nd edition. The color edition is also available at Glasstree Bookstore. It is recommended for students. The series of books Numerical Methods is written primarily for students at technical universities, but also as a useful handbook for engineers, PhD students and scientists. This volume introduces the reader into numeral systems and representation of numbers in digital computers. Possibly the most important part of this book are descriptions of differences between constant and random variables, related types of errors and error propagation. These topics are supplemented with various types of regression analyses. Finally, direct and iterative methods for finding roots of polynomials are explained. Practical application is supported by 77 examples and 13 algorithms. For reasons of simplicity, algorithms are written in pseudo-code, so they can easily be included in any computer program.


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