To decompose solution sets of polynomial systems into irreducible components, homotopy continuation methods generate the action of a natural monodromy group which partially classifies generic points onto their respective irreducible components. As illustrated by the performance on several test examples, this new method achieves a great increase in speed and accuracy, as well as improved numerical conditioning of the multivariate interpolation problem.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification : Primary 65H10; Secondary 13P05, 14Q99, 68W30.
keywords : Components of solutions, embedding, generic points, homotopy continuation, irreducible components, monodromy group, numerical algebraic geometry, polynomial system, primary decomposition.
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