<?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>pointsByIntersection -- computes ideal of point set by intersecting maximal ideals</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_points__Mat.html">next</a> | <a href="_points.html">previous</a> | <a href="_points__Mat.html">forward</a> | <a href="_points.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>pointsByIntersection -- computes ideal of point set by intersecting maximal ideals</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>pointsByIntersection(M,R)</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>M</tt>, <span>a <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Matrix.html">matrix</a></span>, in which each column consists of the coordinates of a point</span></li> <li><span><tt>R</tt>, <span>a <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Polynomial__Ring.html">polynomial ring</a></span>, coordinate ring of the affine space containing the points</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___List.html">list</a></span>, grobner basis for ideal of a finite set of points</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div>This function computes the ideal of a finite set of points by intersecting the ideals for each point. The coordinates of the points are the columns in the input matrix <tt>M</tt>.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : M = random(ZZ^3, ZZ^5) o1 = | 3 7 7 4 5 | | 1 6 1 3 7 | | 7 1 6 1 5 | 3 5 o1 : Matrix ZZ <--- ZZ</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : R = QQ[x,y,z] o2 = R o2 : PolynomialRing</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : pointsByIntersection(M,R) 2 2 o3 = {31y*z + 60z + 72x - 103y - 523z + 391, 31x*z + 64z - 103x + 72y - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 2 2 593z + 601, 31y - 3z - 16x - 263y - 25z + 602, 31x*y - 48z - 101x - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 2 3 2 209y + 344z + 363, 31x - 19z - 339x - 2y + 131z + 754, 31z - 414z + ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24x - 24y + 1541z - 1182} o3 : List</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_points.html" title="produces the ideal and initial ideal from the coordinates of a finite set of points">points</a> -- produces the ideal and initial ideal from the coordinates of a finite set of points</span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>pointsByIntersection</tt> :</h2> <ul><li>pointsByIntersection(Matrix,Ring)</li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>