On 11 September 2012 13:13, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:03:43 PM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote:
>>
>> Volker, will you also include what I call seminvariants?
>
>
> Whats a semi-invariant to you? The leading term of a covariant?
>

Precisely.

> sage: R.<a0, a1, a2, a3, a4, x0, x1> = QQ[]
> sage: quadric =
> invariant_theory.binary_quartic(a0*x1^4+4*a1*x0*x1^3+6*a2*x0^2*x1^2+4*a3*x0^3*x1+a4*x0^4,
> x0, x1)
> sage: quadric.g_covariant().lt()
> a3^2*x0^4
>
> I don't think they should be methods of polynomials; Is x a linear
> homogeneous or quadratic inhomogeneous term?
>

OK, as long as the covariants are there I can extract them.

Your example above reveals another little issue:  you put in the
binomial coeffients, while sometimes one prefers not to.  I think the
fancy way to say this is that there is more than one integral
representation for the same rational representation (OK, so there are
fancier ways to say it than that).  So it would be nice if that could
be speicified by the user (and I will not argue as to which should be
the default).

John

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