<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>poincare(Ring) -- assemble degrees of an ring into a polynomial</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_poincare__N.html">next</a> | <a href="_poincare_lp__Module_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="_poincare__N.html">forward</a> | <a href="_poincare_lp__Module_rp.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>poincare(Ring) -- assemble degrees of an ring into a polynomial</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>poincare R</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Function: <a href="_poincare.html" title="assemble degrees into polynomial">poincare</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>R</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Ring.html">ring</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___Ring__Element.html">ring element</a></span>, in the Laurent polynomial ring whose variables correspond to the degrees of the ring</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div>We compute the <a href="_poincare.html">Poincare polynomial</a> of a ring.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : R=ZZ/101[x]/ideal(x^2);</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : poincare R 2 o2 = 1 - T o2 : ZZ[T]</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : numerator hilbertSeries R 2 o3 = 1 - T o3 : ZZ[T]</pre> </td></tr> </table> Recall that the variables of the polynomial are the variables of the degrees ring.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i4 : R=ZZ/101[x, Degrees => {{1,1}}]/ideal(x^2);</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i5 : poincare R 2 2 o5 = 1 - T T 0 1 o5 : ZZ[T , T ] 0 1</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i6 : numerator hilbertSeries R 2 2 o6 = 1 - T T 0 1 o6 : ZZ[T , T ] 0 1</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>