|   | 1 |  initial version  | 
The issue is that x, y still refer to the old variables in the polynomial ring with four variables. It works when adding the lines
x, y, s = R1.gens()
and
x, y = R2.gens()
respectively.
For debugging MPolynomial_elements, the underlying .dict() field is  helpful.
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