On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 8:58 PM Ricardo Buring <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear sage-devel,
>
> Consider the following example, sent to me by Theo de Jong (Mainz):
>
>     sage: R.<x,y> = PolynomialRing(QQ, order='lex')
>     sage: I = R.ideal([x^2 + y^3 - 2*y^2, x*y^2 - 3*x*y + x, y^4 - 3*y^3 + 
> y^2])
>     sage: f = x^2*y + x*y^2
>     sage: f.reduce(I)
>     3*x*y - x - y^4 + 2*y^3
>
> This remainder r is incorrect, because (according to the documentation) "No 
> term in r is divisible by any of the leading monomials of I", while we 
> clearly see y^4.
> The basis is a Groebner basis, and reduction with respect to the list of 
> polynomials gives the correct result:
>
>     sage: I.basis_is_groebner()
>     True
>     sage: G = I.gens()
>     sage: f.reduce(G)
>     3*x*y - x - y^3 + y^2
>
> The problem seems to be that tail reduction is (unintentionally) turned off 
> in case the ordering is lex and reduction is done w.r.t. an ideal, as 
> previously reported here: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27508
> As suggested by Dima Pasechnik, a workaround is to use the Singular notation 
> 'lp' instead of 'lex'.
> Evidently, the problem lies in the communication between SageMath and 
> (lib)Singular.
> Possible solutions (some with patches) are mentioned in the trac ticket (and 
> the required changes seem relatively minor), but apparently have not been 
> implemented yet.
> Having to work around this bug in an educational setting is frustrating. Is 
> there a hero on sage-devel able and willing to work on a fix?

I think this is
https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27508
which needs an effort to fix, as it's far from easy.


>
> Best regards,
> Ricardo
>
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