On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 1:01 PM Rachel Player <rachelpla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to "remove squares" in some polynomials living in a polynomial ring 
> over QQ, in 2 variables: x,y. I tried to implement this by modding out by the 
> ideal (x^2 - x, y^2 - y). However, I have found that depending on the 
> ordering, the result of .mod() does not always output the polynomial I am 
> looking for.

Thanks. This looks like a bug to me.
Specifically, a bug in Singular, or in Singular interface to Sage, as
if I do
R2.<s,t>=PolynomialRing(QQ,2,order="lex", implementation="generic")
then things work. (this is a slow Python implementation then)

Care to open a trac ticket?

Dima
>
> Please see attached for a code example: in the ring R2, the order is 
> specified as lex, and the polynomial x + y^2 does not reduce to x + y I would 
> like. This issue does not come up for the ring R1 (no ordering specified 
> explicitly), where both x + y^2 and x^2 + y reduce to x + y as expected.
>
> Is there a way to force reduction even for the non-leading terms?
>
> Thanks,
> Rachel
>
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