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Given an integral polynomial of degree strictly greater than one, completely decompose it into a composition of integral polynomials of degree strictly greater than one.
Details
- An integral polynomial is a polynomial with only integers as coefficients.
- Given two polynomials
p
andq
the composition is defined by(p∘q)(x):=p(q(x))
. - The decomposition of an integral polynomial
p
is a finite ordered sequence of integral polynomialsq1,q2,...,qn
wheredeg qi > 1
for all1 ≤ i ≤ n
andp(x) = q1(q2(...qn(x)...))
, and allqi
are not further decomposable. The decomposition is not necessarily unique. - You can use e.g. lists of coefficients or built in polynomial types as input and output.
- Note that many builtins for this task actually decompose the polynomials over a given field and not necessarily integers, while this challenge requires a decomposition integer polynomials. (Some integer polynomials might admit decomposition into integer polynomials as well as decomposition that contain rational polynomials.)
Examples
x^2 + 1
[x^2 + 1] (all polynomials of degree 2 or less are not decomposable)
x^6 - 6x^5 + 15x^4 - 20x^3 + 15x^2 - 6 x - 1
[x^3 - 2, x^2 - 2x + 1]
x^4 - 8x^3 + 18x^2 - 8x + 2
[x^2 + 1, x^2 - 4x + 1]
x^6 + x^2 + 1
[x^3 + x + 1, x^2]
x^6
[x^2, x^3]
x^8 + 4x^6 + 6x^4 + 4x^2 + 4 = (x^2 + 1)^4 + 3
[x^2 + 3, x^2, x^2 + 1]
x^6 + 6x^4 + x^3 + 9x^2 + 3x - 5
[x^2 + x - 5, x^3 + 3*x], [x^2 + 5*x + 1, x^3 + 3*x - 2]
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1Do you check (or filter out) whether you actually get a decomposition into integral polynomials? (I'm asking because the algorithms in the linked paper describe the factorization over some field, and I don't know any Pari/GP.) – flawr – 2018-03-12T12:10:51.630
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@flawr I'm using the second algorithm in the paper, which always returns integral polynomials when the input is integral. In fact, the
– alephalpha – 2018-03-12T14:26:26.480divisors
function in Pari/GP always returns primitive polynomials when it takes an integral polynomial. It can be proved that ifp=q∘r
, wherep
andr
are integral, andr
is primitive withr(0)=0
, thenq
must also be integral. Herep
,q
,r
correspond tof
,g
,h
in the paper.