<?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>valRing -- ring of valuations</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_val__Ring__Ideal.html">next</a> | <a href="_torus__Invariants.html">previous</a> | <a href="_val__Ring__Ideal.html">forward</a> | <a href="_torus__Invariants.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>valRing -- ring of valuations</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>valRing(v,r)</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Matrix.html">matrix</a></span>, values of the indeterminates</span></li> <li><span><span>a <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Ring.html">ring</a></span>, the basering</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>an <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Ideal.html">ideal</a></span>, the list of monomials generating the subalgebra of elements with valuation ≥0</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div>A discrete monomial valuation v on R=K[X<sub>1</sub>,...,X<sub>n</sub>] is determined by the values v(X<sub>j</sub>) of the indeterminates. This function computes the subalgebra S={f∈R: v<sub>i</sub>(f)≥0, i=1,...,n} for several such valuations v<sub>i</sub>, i=1,...,r. The function needs the matrix V=(v<sub>i</sub>(X<sub>j</sub>)) as its input.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : R=QQ[x,y,z,w];</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : V0=matrix({{0,1,2,3},{-1,1,2,1}}); 2 4 o2 : Matrix ZZ <--- ZZ</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : valRing(V0,R) 2 o3 = ideal (y, x*y, w, x*w, z, x*z, x z) o3 : Ideal of R</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Caveat</h2> <div>It is of course possible that S=K. At present, <tt>Normaliz</tt> cannot deal with the zero cone and will issue the (wrong) error message that the cone is not pointed.</div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_val__Ring__Ideal.html" title="valuation ideal">valRingIdeal</a> -- valuation ideal</span></li> <li><span><a href="_torus__Invariants.html" title="ring of invariants">torusInvariants</a> -- ring of invariants</span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>valRing</tt> :</h2> <ul><li>valRing(Matrix,Ring)</li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>