LEA
Fakultät für Informatik der Technischen Universität München
Lehrstuhl für Effiziente Algorithmen
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Optimal Gröbner Base Algorithms for Binomial Ideals

Ulla Koppenhagen and Ernst W. Mayr


Little is known about upper complexity bounds for the normal form algorithms which transform a given polynomial ideal basis into Gröbner basis. In this paper, we exhibit an optimal, exponential space algorithm for generating the reduced Gröbner basis of binomial ideals. This result is then applied to derive space optimal decision procedures for the finite enumeration and subword problems for commutative semigroups.