Globally, the solution set of a system of polynomial equations with complex coefficients can be decomposed into irreducible components. Using numerical algebraic geometry, each irreducible component is represented using a witness set thereby yielding a numerical irreducible decomposition of the solution set. Locally, the irreducible decomposition can be refined to produce a local irreducible de...

We show that (as conjectured by Lin and Wang) when a Vassiliev invariant of type m is evaluated on a knot projection having n crossings, the result is bounded by a constant times nm. Thus the well known analogy between Vassiliev invariants and polynomials justifies (well, at least explains) the odd title of this note.

In a recent note [8], the author provides a counterexample to the global convergence of what his work refers to as “the DSOS and SDSOS hierarchies” for polynomial optimization problems (POPs) and purports that this refutes claims in our extended abstract [4] and slides in [3]. The goal of this paper is to clarify that neither [4], nor [3], and certainly not our full paper [5], ever defined DSOS...

In this paper, we show that there are a number of uncertainty principles for the local polynomial Fourier transform and local polynomial periodogram. Systematic analysis of uncertainty principles is given, explicit expressions of the uncertainty relations are derived, and an example using the chirp signal and the Gaussian window function is given to verify the expressions.

Inspired by the example of Abdelqader and Lake for the Kerr metric, we construct local scalar polynomial curvature invariants that vanish on the horizon of any stationary black hole: the squared norms of the wedge products of n linearly independent gradients of scalar polynomial curvature invariants, where n is the local cohomogeneity of the spacetime.

New results are presented concerning the state isomorphism approach to global identifiability analysis of parameterized classes of nonlinear state space systems with specified initial states. In particular we study the class of homogeneous systems, for which, under certain conditions, the local state isomorphism for a pair of indistinguishable parameter vectors is shown to be homogeneous of deg...

We give a polynomial time algorithm for computing the Igusa local zeta function Z(s, f) attached to a polynomial f (x) ∈ Z[x], in one variable, with splitting field Q, and a prime number p. We also propose a new class of Linear Feedback Shift Registers based on the computation of Igusa's local zeta function.