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NeuroCOLT Technical Report NC-TR-94-012

A Note on Testing the Resultant

T. Lickteig
Bonn University
Germany 

K. Meer
RWTH Aachen
Germany

Abstract

In a recent paper Shub proposes to attack the complex $P_{\C} $ versus $NP_{\C} $ problem by focussing on lower bounds on testing the resultant of quadratic forms for zero. Taking up this question we show in the present paper a lower bound of order $n^3$ for testing the resultant of $n$ homogeneous polynomials of degree 2 in $n$ unknowns to vanish.

 

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