Opened 20 months ago
Closed 6 weeks ago
#30749 closed defect (fixed)
Characteristic polynomial of central Hyperplane arrangement returns wrong result?
Reported by: | jipilab | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | sage-9.6 |
Component: | geometry | Keywords: | hyperplane arrangements, regions |
Cc: | gh-kliem, gh-LaisRast, nailuj | Merged in: | |
Authors: | Jonathan Kliem | Reviewers: | Travis Scrimshaw |
Report Upstream: | N/A | Work issues: | |
Branch: | d74929d (Commits, GitHub, GitLab) | Commit: | d74929dfb74820f79d574189a6bc5803dc00dd8d |
Dependencies: | Stopgaps: |
Description (last modified by )
A central hyperplane arrangement must have an even number of regions by central symmetry... yet the one below gets 31 regions(!).
R.<y> = QQ[] v1 = AA.polynomial_root(AA.common_polynomial(y^2 - 3), RIF(RR(1.7320508075688772), RR(1.7320508075688774))) v2 = QQbar.polynomial_root(AA.common_polynomial(y^4 - y^2 + 1), CIF(RIF(RR(0.8660254037844386), RR(0.86602540378443871)), RIF(-RR(0.50000000000000011), -RR(0.49999999999999994)))) my_vectors = (vector(AA, [-v1, -1, 1]), vector(AA, [0, 2, 1]), vector(AA,[v1, -1, 1]), vector(AA, [1, 0, 0]), vector(AA, [1/2, AA(-1/2*v2^3 + v2),0]), vector(AA, [-1/2, AA(-1/2*v2^3 + v2), 0])) sage: H = HyperplaneArrangements(AA,names='xyz') sage: x,y,z = H.gens() sage: A = H(backend="normaliz") sage: for v in my_vectors: ....: a,b,c = v ....: A = A.add_hyperplane(a*x + b*y + c*z) sage: A Arrangement of 6 hyperplanes of dimension 3 and rank 3 sage: A.n_regions() 31 sage: A.is_central() True
Here is another failure in characteristic polynomial:
sage: tau = AA((1+sqrt(5))/2) sage: ncn = [[2*tau+1,2*tau,tau],[2*tau+2,2*tau+1,tau+1],[1,1,1],[tau+1,tau+1,tau],[2*tau,2*tau,tau],[tau+1,tau+1,1],[1,1,0],[0,1,0],[1,0,0],[tau+1,tau,tau]] sage: H = HyperplaneArrangements(AA,names='xyz') sage: x,y,z = H.gens() sage: A = H() sage: for v in ncn: ....: a,b,c = v ....: A = A.add_hyperplane(a*x + b*y + c*z) ....: sage: A.n_regions() Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: arrangement cannot simultaneously have h and -h as hyperplane
#30078 fixes this and we add another doctest here.
Change History (18)
comment:1 Changed 20 months ago by
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comment:2 follow-up: ↓ 3 Changed 20 months ago by
comment:3 in reply to: ↑ 2 Changed 20 months ago by
Replying to chapoton:
The char poly gives the same answer
sage: p = A.characteristic_polynomial() : p x^3 - 6*x^2 + 13*x - 11 sage: p(-1) -31
Yes, this is how the number of regions is computed up to sign. The hyperplane arrangement seems to be sane: computing .regions()
computes the expected (number of) regions.
I asked the number of regions to double-check something and then got this scary answer...
comment:4 Changed 20 months ago by
- Summary changed from Characteristic polynomial of central Hyperplane arrangement results wrong result? to Characteristic polynomial of central Hyperplane arrangement returns wrong result?
comment:5 follow-up: ↓ 10 Changed 20 months ago by
I encountered this problem in some example a long while ago, before I was contributing to Sage myself. A simple workaround is to have n_regions
output len(self.regions())
, which was good enough for me. Of course, this is much slower if one doesn’t want to compute the regions anyway. I don’t understand the characteristic polynomial well enough to figure out the error in there.
comment:6 Changed 18 months ago by
- Description modified (diff)
comment:7 Changed 15 months ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-9.3 to sage-9.4
Setting new milestone based on a cursory review of ticket status, priority, and last modification date.
comment:8 Changed 10 months ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-9.4 to sage-9.5
comment:9 Changed 5 months ago by
- Milestone changed from sage-9.5 to sage-9.6
comment:10 in reply to: ↑ 5 Changed 2 months ago by
Replying to nailuj:
I don’t understand the characteristic polynomial well enough to figure out the error in there.
The characteristic polynomial is obtained through recursive deletions and contractions of hyperplane arrangements. During this process, it may occur that some hyperplane h
is included in an arrangement multiple times with different scalings of the defining linear expression which are not properly detected as duplicates. This is due to a defect in the method hyperplane.primitive()
addressed in #30078.
comment:11 Changed 2 months ago by
- Dependencies set to #30078
comment:12 Changed 7 weeks ago by
Is this defect solved by #30078?
comment:13 Changed 7 weeks ago by
It seems like it is. Using the first example, I get
sage: A.n_regions() 24 sage: len(A.regions()) 24 sage: A.characteristic_polynomial()(-1) -24
So it is now consistent. We probably just want to add a doctest for this ticket.
comment:14 Changed 7 weeks ago by
- Branch set to public/30749
- Commit set to 1492ed150e76f36d09317428d9e642986554ec6b
- Dependencies #30078 deleted
- Description modified (diff)
- Status changed from new to needs_review
comment:15 Changed 7 weeks ago by
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sage/geometry/hyperplane_arrangement/arrangement.py
a b 1179 1179 sage: H = HyperplaneArrangements(AA, names='xyz') 1180 1180 sage: x,y,z = H.gens() 1181 1181 sage: A = H(backend="normaliz") # optional - pynormaliz 1182 sage: for v in my_vector : # optional - pyrormaliz1182 sage: for v in my_vectors: # optional - pynormaliz 1183 1183 ....: a, b, c = v 1184 1184 ....: A = A.add_hyperplane(a*x + b*y + c*z) 1185 sage: A.n_regions() # optional - py rormaliz1185 sage: A.n_regions() # optional - pynormaliz 1186 1186 32 1187 1187 """ 1188 1188 if self.base_ring().characteristic() != 0:
comment:16 Changed 7 weeks ago by
- Commit changed from 1492ed150e76f36d09317428d9e642986554ec6b to d74929dfb74820f79d574189a6bc5803dc00dd8d
Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. New commits:
d74929d | typos
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comment:17 Changed 7 weeks ago by
- Reviewers set to Travis Scrimshaw
- Status changed from needs_review to positive_review
Thank you. LGTM.
@gh-sheerluck, please add your (real) name to the reviewers (if you want).
comment:18 Changed 6 weeks ago by
- Branch changed from public/30749 to d74929dfb74820f79d574189a6bc5803dc00dd8d
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from positive_review to closed
The char poly gives the same answer