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Will "solve_right" return integer solutions if one exists?

asked 2016-02-03 20:08:49 +0100

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If A is an integer matrix and b is an integer vector, then will the command A.solve_right(b) return an integer vector if the equation Ax=b is solvable over the integers?

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answered 2016-02-03 22:09:04 +0100

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The answer is no

sage: A = matrix(2,3, [3,4,1,5,9,2])
sage: A.solve_right(vector((1,2)))
(1/7, 1/7, 0)
sage: A * vector((0,0,1))
(1, 2)
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There is the natural question of how to get integer solutions in an efficient manner... but presumably one could create arbitrarily annoying matrices where that would not be so easy to do programmatically?

kcrisman gravatar imagekcrisman ( 2016-02-04 14:50:07 +0100 )edit

It is not so hard either ;-) Just some arithmetic with Z-modules.

vdelecroix gravatar imagevdelecroix ( 2016-02-04 16:28:39 +0100 )edit

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