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Magma V2.11-8 Patch Notes

Patch release for Magma V2.11-8. Updated areas: Commutative Algebra, Language, Rings and Fields.

3 areas

Commutative Algebra

  • Major improvements have been made to the Faugere F4 algorithm for computing Gröbner bases.
  • HFE systems (for which the secret degree parameter is up to 128) can now be solved in a much quicker time, by specifying the HFE parameter to the Gröbner procedure or the GroebnerBasis function.

Language

  • A bug in the parsing code for extended types in intrinsics has been fixed.
  • A bug which caused Magma to crash upon the restoration of many saved workspaces has been fixed.

Rings and Fields

  • SplittingField had problems dealing with trivial extensions. This has been fixed.
  • Functionality involving Norm, Trace and RationalFunction of function field elements over specified coefficient rings and fields has been restored.
  • A problem involving solution of linear equations over p-adic fields has been fixed.
  • A problem involving number fields defined by non-monic/non-integral polynomials has been fixed.
  • A problem involving norm equations with trivial right hand side has been fixed.
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