This is now #3964.

John

2008/8/27 John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> You are definitely right.  The problem lies (as far as I can see) in
> sage.schemes.generic in the __init__ funtion of class
> SchemeMorphism_on_points_projective_space.  (I only found this out by
> tring to construct a morphism from P^1 to P^1 using 3 polynomials,
> which did raise an error in this very function.)
>
> It appears that the only check this function does is that the number
> of polys is correct.  It does not check that they are actually polys,
> or have the right number of variables, let alone that they are coprime
> and homogeneous of the same degree:
>
> sage: S.<u,v,w> = QQ[]
> sage: f = H([u,v])
> sage: f = H([u*v*w,u+v+w])
> sage: f = H([exp(u),exp(v)])
> sage: f
>
> Scheme endomorphism of Projective Space of dimension 1 over Rational Field
>  Defn: Defined on coordinates by sending (x : y) to
>        (e^u : e^v)
>
> with H as in your example.
>
> This definitely deserves a ticket, which I will create. now.
>
> John
>
> 2008/8/27 Alex Ghitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am fairly certain the following two things are bugs, but I want to
>> double-check that I'm not doing something stupid before submitting a ticket:
>>
>> sage: R.<x,y> = QQ[]
>> sage: P1 = ProjectiveSpace(R)
>> sage: H = P1.Hom(P1)
>> sage: f = H([x-y, x*y])
>> sage: f
>>
>> Scheme endomorphism of Projective Space of dimension 1 over Rational Field
>>  Defn: Defined on coordinates by sending (x : y) to
>>        (x - y : x*y)
>>
>>
>> This is nonsense: there is no morphism from P1 to P1 given by those
>> equations, since the two polynomials x-y and x*y are not homogeneous of
>> the same degree.  I think Sage should throw a ValueError here.
>>
>> The second example:
>>
>> sage: R.<x,y> = QQ[]
>> sage: P1 = ProjectiveSpace(R)
>> sage: H = P1.Hom(P1)
>> sage: f = H([x^2, x*y])
>> sage: f
>>
>> Scheme endomorphism of Projective Space of dimension 1 over Rational Field
>>  Defn: Defined on coordinates by sending (x : y) to
>>        (x^2 : x*y)
>>
>>
>> This is also bad: the two polynomials are now homogeneous of degree 2,
>> but they are not relatively prime (and so this is not a morphism from P1
>> to P1, but rather a rational map since it is not defined at (0 : y)).  I
>> think Sage should also throw a ValueError here.
>>
>> (Or maybe I'm doing things wrong, in which case I'd love to find out how
>> to make this work.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alexandru Ghitza
>> Lecturer, Pure Mathematics
>> Department of Mathematics and Statistics
>> The University of Melbourne
>> Parkville, VIC, 3010
>> Australia
>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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