Dear Misja,

What I had in mind was something like this. Given some monstrous number
field K with enormous discriminant, and some small prime p, you can ask
Sage for a p-maximal order and it'll find one reasonably quickly, as you
know.

All I was saying is that if the resulting order O is of the form Z[X] /
(f), for some polynomial f in Z[X] -- i.e. if "O.ring_generators()" is a
list of length 1 -- then you can quickly compute all possible maps O -->
Fp-bar by just factoring f modulo p. (Sage really ought to have this coded
up already; sadly it doesn't, but it's trivial to implement.) Maybe this
isn't a terribly helpful remark; I don't know how likely it is that the
orders you work with have this form.

David

On 17 March 2016 at 16:33, Misja <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]> 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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