Hey Guys, i am absolutely new to sage but want to use it for some algebraic calculations. Therefore i must generate the Polynomial ring R=$(Z/nZ[x])/(x^N-1)$ to calcuate some inverses and products of some polynomials in R.
I hope it's not a too stupid question and apologize for bothering you guys with this but i still hope someone can give me an answer :).
(ofc for some given n and N)
You should have a look at the documentation.
sage: A = Zmod(4)
sage: P = PolynomialRing(A, 'x')
sage: x = P.gen()
sage: R = R.quotient(x^7 - 1)
sage: xbar = R.gen()
sage: xbar ** 7
1
sage: 4 * xbar
0
But note that computation of inverses does not work at all:
sage: 1 / xbar
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
NotImplementedError: The base ring (=Ring of integers modulo 4) is not a field
first of thanks. i dont know why haven't found that documentation... is there no possibility to compute inverses?
is there another computer algebra system that tries it even though its not a field?
xbar is just the name of the variable given by @vdelecroix As you can see, it is defined as R.gen() which means that it is the generator or the quitient ring of P by x^7 - 1, more precisely, it is the image of x under the quotient map.
Asked: 2015-10-08 12:57:14 +0200
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