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A survey on signature-based algorithms for computing Gröbner bases. (English) Zbl 1412.68306
Summary: In [Ein Algorithmus zum Auffinden der Basiselemente des Restklassenringes nach einem nulldimensionalen Polynomideal. Innsbruck: Universität Innsbruck (PhD Thesis) (1965)] B. Buchberger introduced an algorithmic approach to compute Gröbner bases. Later on, he and many others presented various attempts to improve the computation by removing useless elements a priori. One approach, initiated by Gebauer, Möller, Mora and Traverso in the 1990s, is to keep track of the corresponding syzygies which is related to the topic of this survey: signature-based algorithms for Gröbner bases. This area was initiated by J.-C. Faugère’s F5 algorithm [in: Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on symbolic and algebraic computation, ISSAC’02. New York, NY: ACM Press. 75–83 (2002; Zbl 1072.68664)]. The general idea of signatures is to keep track of the history of the computation with a minimal overhead and to exploit this information to detect redundant elements. Here we give a summary of the literature on signature-based algorithms and show how to classify known algorithms by 3 different orderings. For this we give translations between different notations and show the relationships (differences and similarities) among many approaches. Moreover, we give a general description of how the idea of signatures is quite natural when performing the reduction process using linear algebra. We hope that this survey would help to outline this field of active research.

##### MSC:
 68W30 Symbolic computation and algebraic computation 13P10 Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases)
##### Keywords:
Gröbner bases; F5; GVW; signature-based algorithms; syzygies
##### Software:
F5C; PoSSo; slimgb
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