On the Computation of the Zariski Closure of Finitely Generated Groups of Matrices

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Auteurs principaux: Nosan, Klara, Pouly, Amaury, Schmitz, Sylvain, Shirmohammadi, Mahsa, Worrell, James
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author Nosan, Klara
Pouly, Amaury
Schmitz, Sylvain
Shirmohammadi, Mahsa
Worrell, James
author_facet Nosan, Klara
Pouly, Amaury
Schmitz, Sylvain
Shirmohammadi, Mahsa
Worrell, James
contents We investigate the complexity of computing the Zariski closure of a finitely generated group of matrices. The Zariski closure was previously shown to be computable by Derksen, Jeandel, and Koiran, but the termination argument for their algorithm appears not to yield any complexity bound. In this paper we follow a different approach and obtain a bound on the degree of the polynomials that define the closure. Our bound shows that the closure can be computed in elementary time. We also obtain upper bounds on the length of chains of linear algebraic groups, where all the groups are generated over a fixed number field.
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spellingShingle On the Computation of the Zariski Closure of Finitely Generated Groups of Matrices
Nosan, Klara
Pouly, Amaury
Schmitz, Sylvain
Shirmohammadi, Mahsa
Worrell, James
Computational Complexity
Algebraic Geometry
Group Theory
We investigate the complexity of computing the Zariski closure of a finitely generated group of matrices. The Zariski closure was previously shown to be computable by Derksen, Jeandel, and Koiran, but the termination argument for their algorithm appears not to yield any complexity bound. In this paper we follow a different approach and obtain a bound on the degree of the polynomials that define the closure. Our bound shows that the closure can be computed in elementary time. We also obtain upper bounds on the length of chains of linear algebraic groups, where all the groups are generated over a fixed number field.
title On the Computation of the Zariski Closure of Finitely Generated Groups of Matrices
topic Computational Complexity
Algebraic Geometry
Group Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01853