In my talk I am going to remind you what is the AK-invariant and give examples of its usefulness. I shall also discuss basic conjectures about this invariant and some positive and negative results related to these conjectures.
This paper deals with integrability issues of the Euler-Lagrange equations associated to a variational problem, where the energy function depends on acceleration and drag. Although the motivation came from applications to path planning of underwater robot manipulators, the approach is rather theoretical and the main difficulties result from the fact that the power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of its speed.
This paper gives an algorithm for computing the kernel of a locally finite higher derivation on the polynomial ring k[x₁,..., xₙ] up to a given bound.
An algorithm is described which computes generators of the kernel of derivations on k[X₁,...,Xₙ] up to a previously given bound. For w-homogeneous derivations it is shown that if the algorithm computes a generating set for the kernel then this set is minimal.
Let k be a field of characteristic zero. We prove that the derivation , where s ≥ 2, 0 ≠ p ∈ k, of the polynomial ring k[x,y] is simple.
Border bases are an alternative to Gröbner bases. The former have several more desirable properties. In this paper some constructions and operations on border bases are presented. Namely; the case of a restriction of an ideal to a polynomial ring (in a smaller number of variables), the case of the intersection of two ideals, and the case of the kernel of a homomorphism of polynomial rings. These constructions are applied to the ideal of relations and to factorizable derivations.
La théorie des valuations née des travaux des géomètres et arithméticiens du XIX siècle, fit une apparition tardive et encore peu connue au XX siècle en algèbre différentielle. Dans cet article, à travers les contributions de nombreux auteurs, nous présentons une synthèse des divers apports de la théorie des valuations à l’étude des équations différentielles. Nous insistons sur le caractère unificateur de la théorie des valuations en illustrant comment elles permettent de mettre en parallèle des...