Getting Started

Getting Started

Nemo is a computer algebra package for the Julia programming language, maintained by William Hart, Tommy Hofmann, Claus Fieker, Fredrik Johansson with additional code by Oleksandr Motsak, Marek Kaluba and other contributors.

The features of Nemo so far include:

Nemo depends on AbstractAlgebra.jl which provides Nemo with generic routines for:

Installation

To use Nemo we require Julia 1.0 or higher. Please see http://julialang.org/downloads for instructions on how to obtain julia for your system.

At the Julia prompt simply type

julia> using Pkg; Pkg.add("Nemo")

Quick start

Here are some examples of using Nemo.

This example computes recursive univariate polynomials.

julia> using Nemo

julia> R, x = PolynomialRing(ZZ, "x")
(Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Integer Ring,x)

julia> S, y = PolynomialRing(R, "y")
(Univariate Polynomial Ring in y over Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Integer Ring,y)

julia> T, z = PolynomialRing(S, "z")
(Univariate Polynomial Ring in z over Univariate Polynomial Ring in y over Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Integer Ring,z)

julia> f = x + y + z + 1
z+(y+(x+1))

julia> p = f^30; # semicolon supresses output

julia> @time q = p*(p+1);
  0.325521 seconds (140.64 k allocations: 3.313 MB)

Here is an example using generic recursive ring constructions.

julia> using Nemo

julia> R, x = FiniteField(7, 11, "x")
(Finite field of degree 11 over F_7,x)

julia> S, y = PolynomialRing(R, "y")
(Univariate Polynomial Ring in y over Finite field of degree 11 over F_7,y)

julia> T = ResidueRing(S, y^3 + 3x*y + 1)
Residue ring of Univariate Polynomial Ring in y over Finite field of degree 11 over F_7 modulo y^3+(3*x)*y+(1)

julia> U, z = PolynomialRing(T, "z")
(Univariate Polynomial Ring in z over Residue ring of Univariate Polynomial Ring in y over Finite field of degree 11 over F_7 modulo y^3+(3*x)*y+(1),z)

julia> f = (3y^2 + y + x)*z^2 + ((x + 2)*y^2 + x + 1)*z + 4x*y + 3;

julia> g = (7y^2 - y + 2x + 7)*z^2 + (3y^2 + 4x + 1)*z + (2x + 1)*y + 1;

julia> s = f^12;

julia> t = (s + g)^12;

julia> @time resultant(s, t)
  0.426612 seconds (705.88 k allocations: 52.346 MB, 2.79% gc time)
(x^10+4*x^8+6*x^7+3*x^6+4*x^5+x^4+6*x^3+5*x^2+x)*y^2+(5*x^10+x^8+4*x^7+3*x^5+5*x^4+3*x^3+x^2+x+6)*y+(2*x^10+6*x^9+5*x^8+5*x^7+x^6+6*x^5+5*x^4+4*x^3+x+3)

Here is an example using matrices.

julia> using Nemo

julia> R, x = PolynomialRing(ZZ, "x")
(Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Integer Ring,x)

julia> S = MatrixSpace(R, 40, 40)
Matrix Space of 40 rows and 40 columns over Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Integer Ring

julia> M = rand(S, 2:2, -20:20)

julia> @time det(M);
  0.131212 seconds (1.12 M allocations: 39.331 MiB, 4.77% gc time)

And here is an example with power series.

julia> using Nemo

julia> R, x = QQ["x"]
(Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Rational Field,x)

julia> S, t = PowerSeriesRing(R, 100, "t")
(Univariate power series ring in t over Univariate Polynomial Ring in x over Rational Field,t+O(t^101))

julia> u = t + O(t^100)
t+O(t^100)

julia> @time divexact((u*exp(x*u)), (exp(u)-1));
  0.042663 seconds (64.01 k allocations: 1.999 MB, 15.40% gc time)

Building dependencies from source

Nemo depends on various C libraries which are installed using binaries by default. Building from source can be enabled by setting the environment variable NEMO_SOURCE_BUILD=1 and then doing Pkg.build("Nemo") or Pkg.add("Nemo") depending on whether Nemo was already installed.