Re: vector version of gcdext?

[Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

* Bill Allombert [2018-10-03 18:31]:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 04:47:40PM +0100, J E Cremona wrote:
> > The function gcd() allows 2 inputs as in gcd(2,3) or a vector of inputs as
> > in gcd([6,10,15]),  but the extended version only allows the first form.
> > It would not be hard to write an extended vector version (and I can of
> > course write my own) -- feature request?
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> The issue is that there are several solutions and no obvious canonical
> ones in that case. What would your extended vector version do ?
> 
> Sometime we want small solutions, in which case a LLL based solution is
> better

That's what mathnf(t_VEC) implements [ Havas-Majewski ] for integer entries.
For polynomials, the implementation is not efficient, but OK for small
matrices.

> , and often we want the dual of gcdext, that is:
> given p_1...p_n, find a_1...a_n such that
> 
> \sum a_i\*\prod_{i \neq j} p_j = 1
> 
> (that is a_i = delta_i,j [mod p_j])

Not too hard to get that one from the other ...

  Q = vecprod(P);
  mathnf(vector(#P, i, Q/P[i]))

Cheers,

    K.B.
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