Hi David,

Thank you very much for this helpful reply! You're right, of course: my 
example was silly. Here's an example with a 104 digit discriminant that my 
code just got stuck on (for a bit).

x=polygen(QQ);
K=NumberField(x^5 + 16255223088*(x^4) - 330681713908949415936*(x^3) - 
5058938091171222191449571328000*(x^2) - 
2907488578277274989701398473183198183424*x + 
76587534178613500902724649685949865805676749520896,'a');
fact=K.factor(5);
print K.residue_field(fact[0][0]);

What I am trying to do is to calculate reductions of modular forms modulo 
some prime ideal P. However, the coefficients of such a modular form may 
lie in a number field with a 1000 digit discriminant and I want to avoid 
trying to factor this if I can, hence my trying to use p-maximal orders.

Could you explain a bit more what you mean in the monogenic case? Could you 
do something like EquationOrder(K.defining_polynomial(),'alpha'), take a 
p-maximal order there and then do what you are suggesting? Although, 
actually, I don't know if sage can calculate a p-maximal order of a given 
order.

Misja



On Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:50:59 UTC, David Loeffler wrote:
>
> There are two reasons why people work with non-maximal orders: because 
> they're actually interested in their arithmetic; or (more often) because 
> they're working with examples where the discriminant is too large to 
> efficiently factor. Which is the case in your problem? In the example you 
> give, you're letting PARI choose the order for you, but the discriminant is 
> small enough that one can find a maximal order in a few milliseconds anyway 
> (and Sage is perfectly happy to work with residue fields of maximal 
> orders). 
>
> If you genuinely don't want to factor the discriminant, but the orders 
> you're interested in are "monogenic" (generated by a single element over 
> Z), then you can just factor the characteristic polynomial of the generator 
> over Fp and that gives you the factorisation, and the reduction maps, 
> immediately.
>
> Can you give an example of a case you'd be interested in where the maximal 
> order is really too big to easily find?
>
> Regards, David
>
> On 11 March 2016 at 14:42, Misja <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> For a number field N I am trying to factor an integral prime p in a 
>> p-maximal order Op. In the end I would like a map from the quotient of the 
>> p-maximal order Op/P (for P|p) to some finite field in Sage's standard 
>> finite field form, but I can't quite figure out how to do it.
>>
>> Firstly, Sage doesn't have ideals or residue fields of non-maximal orders 
>> implemented, so I am trying to compute the factorisation of p in Op via the 
>> PARI/GP interface with sage. I think this can be done, for example, in the 
>> following way, in which we compute a 7-maximal order of the number field 
>> defined by x^8+x^3-13*x+26 and compute all primes above 7 in this order.
>>
>> x=polygen(QQ);
>>
>> nf=gp.nfinit([x^8 + x^3 - 13*x + 26,[7]]); #Note the [7] at the end, 
>> indicating a 7-maximal order only.
>> nf; 
>>
>> fact=gp.idealprimedec(nf,7); 
>> fact;
>>
>> res_field_sizes=[];
>> for i in fact:
>>     res_field_sizes.append(i[1]**i[4]);
>>
>> res_field_sizes;
>>
>> Now, for each element fact[i] of fact, I would like to compute a 
>> homomorphism Op->Op/fact[i]->GF(res_field_sizes[i-1],'gen') - note that 
>> we're using a vector in pari/gp and a list in sage hence fact[i] 
>> corresponds to res_field_sizes[i-1]. I can't quite get this to work.
>>
>> I feel like there are two options:
>>
>>    1. Translate the p-maximal order and prime factorisation back to 
>>    sage. Take a poly quotient or something. Map this to a finite field.
>>    2. Keep on working in pari/gp and use, for example, nfeltreducemodpr 
>>    to reduce elts of Op to the residue field (does this really calculate 
>> Op/P 
>>    if the nf.zk is a non-maximal Z-basis?). Map this to a finite field 
>>    somehow. Translate back to Sage.
>>
>> I can't really get either approach to work at the moment. But I wouldn't 
>> call myself a big Sage or PARI/GP expert, so it is very possible that I am 
>> missing something.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
>>
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