a b s t r a c tWe introduce and discuss a new computational model for the Hermite-Lagrange interpolation with nonlinear classes of polynomial interpolants. We distinguish between an interpolation problem and an algorithm that solves it. Our model includes also coalescence phenomena and captures a large variety of known Hermite-Lagrange interpolation problems and algorithms. Like in traditional Hermite-Lagrange interpolation, our model is based on the execution of arithmetic operations (including divisions) in the field where the data (nodes and values) are interpreted and arithmetic operations are counted at unit cost. This leads us to a new view of rational functions and maps defined on arbitrary constructible subsets of complex affine spaces. For this purpose we have to develop new tools in algebraic geometry which themselves are mainly based on Zariski's Main Theorem and the theory of places (or equivalently: valuations). We finish this paper by exhibiting two examples of Lagrange interpolation problems with nonlinear classes of interpolants, which do not admit efficient interpolation algorithms (one of these interpolation problems requires even an exponential quantity of arithmetic * operations in terms of the number of the given nodes in order to represent some of the interpolants).In other words, classic Lagrange interpolation algorithms are asymptotically optimal for the solution of these selected interpolation problems and nothing is gained by allowing interpolation algorithms and classes of interpolants to be nonlinear. We show also that classic Lagrange interpolation algorithms are almost optimal for generic nodes and values. This generic data cannot be substantially compressed by using nonlinear techniques.We finish this paper highlighting the close connection of our complexity results in Hermite-Lagrange interpolation with a modern trend in software engineering: architecture tradeoff analysis methods (ATAM).
We exhibit a probabilistic algorithm which solves a polynomial system over the rationals defined by a reduced regular sequence. Its bit complexity is roughly quadratic in the Bézout number of the system and linear in its bit size. Our algorithm solves the input system modulo a prime number p and applies p-adic lifting. For this purpose, we establish a number of results on the bit length of a "lucky" prime p, namely one for which the reduction of the input system modulo p preserves certain fundamental geometric and algebraic properties of the original system. These results rely on the analysis of Chow forms associated to the set of solutions of the input system and effective arithmetic Nullstellensätze.
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