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FastLinAlg :: regularInCodimension

regularInCodimension -- attempts to show that the ring is regular in codimension n

Synopsis

Description

This function returns true if R is regular in codimension n, false if it is not, and null if it did not make a determination. It considers interesting minors of the jacobian matrix to try to verify that the ring is regular in codimension n. It is frequently much faster at giving an affirmative answer than computing the dimension of the ideal of all minors of the Jacobian. We begin with a simple example which is R1, but not R2.

i1 : R = QQ[x, y, z]/ideal(x*y-z^2);
i2 : regularInCodimension(1, R)

o2 = true
i3 : regularInCodimension(2, R)

Next we consider a more interesting example that is R1 but not R2, and highlight the speed differences. Note that regularInCodimension(2, R) returns nothing, as the function did not determine if the ring was regular in codimension n.

i4 : T = ZZ/101[x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6,x7];
i5 : I =  ideal(x5*x6-x4*x7,x1*x6-x2*x7,x5^2-x1*x7,x4*x5-x2*x7,x4^2-x2*x6,x1*x4-x2*x5,x2*x3^3*x5+3*x2*x3^2*x7+8*x2^2*x5+3*x3*x4*x7-8*x4*x7+x6*x7,x1*x3^3*x5+3*x1*x3^2*x7+8*x1*x2*x5+3*x3*x5*x7-8*x5*x7+x7^2,x2*x3^3*x4+3*x2*x3^2*x6+8*x2^2*x4+3*x3*x4*x6-8*x4*x6+x6^2,x2^2*x3^3+3*x2*x3^2*x4+8*x2^3+3*x2*x3*x6-8*x2*x6+x4*x6,x1*x2*x3^3+3*x2*x3^2*x5+8*x1*x2^2+3*x2*x3*x7-8*x2*x7+x4*x7,x1^2*x3^3+3*x1*x3^2*x5+8*x1^2*x2+3*x1*x3*x7-8*x1*x7+x5*x7);

o5 : Ideal of T
i6 : S = T/I;
i7 : dim S

o7 = 3
i8 : time regularInCodimension(1, S)
     -- used 0.747105 seconds

o8 = true
i9 : time regularInCodimension(2, S)
     -- used 7.45315 seconds

On one machine, a call of dim singularLocus R took 32.4468 seconds and returned 1. On the same machine, regularInCodimension(1, R) took only 0.153042 seconds.

The following is a (pruned) affine chart on Abelian surface (the product of elliptic curves). It is nonsingular, as our function verifies. If one does not prune it, then the dim singularLocus call takes an enormous amount of time, otherwise dim singularLocus frequently takes a similar amount of time to our function.

i10 : R = QQ[c, f, g, h]/ideal(g^3+h^3+1,f*g^3+f*h^3+f,c*g^3+c*h^3+c,f^2*g^3+f^2*h^3+f^2,c*f*g^3+c*f*h^3+c*f,c^2*g^3+c^2*h^3+c^2,f^3*g^3+f^3*h^3+f^3,c*f^2*g^3+c*f^2*h^3+c*f^2,c^2*f*g^3+c^2*f*h^3+c^2*f,c^3-f^2-c,c^3*h-f^2*h-c*h,c^3*g-f^2*g-c*g,c^3*h^2-f^2*h^2-c*h^2,c^3*g*h-f^2*g*h-c*g*h,c^3*g^2-f^2*g^2-c*g^2,c^3*h^3-f^2*h^3-c*h^3,c^3*g*h^2-f^2*g*h^2-c*g*h^2,c^3*g^2*h-f^2*g^2*h-c*g^2*h,c^3*g^3+f^2*h^3+c*h^3+f^2+c);
i11 : dim(R)

o11 = 2
i12 : time (dim singularLocus (R))
     -- used 0.294595 seconds

o12 = -1
i13 : time regularInCodimension(2, R)
     -- used 0.507182 seconds

o13 = true
i14 : time regularInCodimension(2, R)
     -- used 0.161293 seconds

o14 = true
i15 : time regularInCodimension(2, R)
     -- used 0.515789 seconds

o15 = true

The function works by choosing interesting looking submatrices, computing their determinants, and periodically (based on a logarithmic growth setting), computing the dimension of a subideal of the Jacobian. The option Verbose can be used to see this in action.

i16 : time regularInCodimension(2, S, Verbose=>true)
regularInCodimension: ring dimension =3, there are 17325 possible minors, we will compute up to 327.599 of them.
regularInCodimension: About to enter loop
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 11, and computed = 10
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 14, and computed = 12
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 18, and computed = 14
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 24, and computed = 19
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 31, and computed = 23
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 40, and computed = 29
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 52, and computed = 36
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 67, and computed = 46
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 87, and computed = 56
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 113, and computed = 70
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 147, and computed = 87
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 191, and computed = 111
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 248, and computed = 145
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 322, and computed = 192
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 328, and computed = 195
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
regularInCodimension:  Loop completed, submatrices considered = 328, and computed = 195.  singular locus dimension appears to be = 1
     -- used 7.72729 seconds

The maximum number of minors considered can be controlled by the option MaxMinors. Alternately, it can be controlled in a more precise way by passing a function to the option MaxMinors. This function should have two inputs, the first is minimum number of minors needed to determine if the ring is regular in codimension n, and the second is the total number of minors available in the Jacobian. The function regularInCodimension does not recompute determinants, so MaxMinors or is only an upper bound on the number of minors computed.

i17 : time regularInCodimension(2, S, Verbose=>true, MaxMinors=>30)
regularInCodimension: ring dimension =3, there are 17325 possible minors, we will compute up to 30 of them.
regularInCodimension: About to enter loop
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexLargestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 11, and computed = 10
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 2
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallestTerm
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 14, and computed = 13
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 2
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 18, and computed = 16
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing GRevLexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 24, and computed = 18
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing RandomNonZero
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
internalChooseMinor: Choosing Random
internalChooseMinor: Choosing LexSmallest
regularInCodimension:  Loop step, about to compute dimension.  Submatrices considered: 30, and computed = 23
regularInCodimension:  isCodimAtLeast failed, computing codim.
regularInCodimension:  partial singular locus dimension computed, = 1
regularInCodimension:  Loop completed, submatrices considered = 30, and computed = 23.  singular locus dimension appears to be = 1
     -- used 0.820803 seconds

This function has many options which allow you to fine tune the strategy used to find interesting minors. You can pass it a HashTable specifying the strategy via the option Strategy. See LexSmallest for how to construct this HashTable. The default strategy is StrategyDefault, which seems to work well on the examples we have explored. However, caution must be taken, even in the above examples, certain strategies work well while others do not. In the Abelian surface example, LexSmallest works very well, while LexSmallestTerm does not even typically correctly identify the ring as nonsingular (this is because of the fact that there are a small number of entries with nonzero constant terms, which are selected repeatedly). However, in our first example, the LexSmallestTerm is much faster, and Random does not perform well at all.

i18 : StrategyCurrent#Random = 0;
i19 : StrategyCurrent#LexSmallest = 100;
i20 : StrategyCurrent#LexSmallestTerm = 0;
i21 : time regularInCodimension(2, R, Strategy=>StrategyCurrent)
     -- used 0.172093 seconds

o21 = true
i22 : time regularInCodimension(2, R, Strategy=>StrategyCurrent)
     -- used 0.20193 seconds

o22 = true
i23 : time regularInCodimension(1, S, Strategy=>StrategyCurrent)
     -- used 0.464978 seconds

o23 = true
i24 : time regularInCodimension(1, S, Strategy=>StrategyCurrent)
     -- used 1.20252 seconds

o24 = true
i25 : StrategyCurrent#LexSmallest = 0;
i26 : StrategyCurrent#LexSmallestTerm = 100;
i27 : time regularInCodimension(2, R, Strategy=>StrategyCurrent)
     -- used 2.14857 seconds
i28 : time regularInCodimension(2, R, Strategy=>StrategyCurrent)
     -- used 2.16156 seconds
i29 : time regularInCodimension(1, S, Strategy=>StrategyCurrent)
     -- used 0.217348 seconds

o29 = true
i30 : time regularInCodimension(1, S, Strategy=>StrategyCurrent)
     -- used 0.290243 seconds

o30 = true
i31 : time regularInCodimension(1, S, Strategy=>StrategyRandom)
     -- used 1.40817 seconds

o31 = true
i32 : time regularInCodimension(1, S, Strategy=>StrategyRandom)
     -- used 3.57934 seconds

o32 = true

The minimum number of minors computed before checking the codimension, can also be controlled by an option MinMinorsFunction. This is should be a function of a single variable, the number of minors computed. Finally, via the option CodimCheckFunction, you can pass the regularInCodimension a function which controls how frequently the codimension of the partial Jacobian ideal is computed. By default this is the floor of 1.3^k. Finally, passing the option ModP => p will do the computation after changing the coefficient ring to ZZ/p.

The options PairLimit and SPairsFunction are passed directly to isCodimAtLeast. You can turn off internal calls to codim/dim, and only use isCodimAtLeast by setting UseOnlyFastCodim => true.

See also

Ways to use regularInCodimension :

For the programmer

The object regularInCodimension is a method function with options.