#10563: improve jordan_form over univariate rational expressions
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   Reporter:  zimmerma        |       Owner:  jason, was
       Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new       
   Priority:  minor           |   Milestone:  sage-4.6.1
  Component:  linear algebra  |    Keywords:            
     Author:                  |    Upstream:  N/A       
   Reviewer:                  |      Merged:            
Work_issues:                  |  
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Comment(by rbeezer):

 It seems the fraction field does not know if it is finite or infinite.
 Maybe something else is in the way of getting Jordan form, but this looks
 like the first obstacle.

 {{{
 sage: T.<a>=QQ[]
 sage: R=FractionField(T)
 sage: A = matrix(R,[[1,a],[a,1]])

 sage: A.charpoly().roots()
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 NotImplementedError                       Traceback (most recent call
 last)

 /home/sage/sage-4.6.1.rc1/devel/sage-main/<ipython console> in <module>()

 /sage/sage-4.6.1.rc1/local/lib/python2.6/site-
 packages/sage/rings/polynomial/polynomial_element.so in
 sage.rings.polynomial.polynomial_element.Polynomial.roots
 (sage/rings/polynomial/polynomial_element.c:31227)()

 /sage/sage-4.6.1.rc1/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/rings/ring.so
 in sage.rings.ring.Ring.is_finite (sage/rings/ring.c:5810)()

 NotImplementedError:

 sage: R.is_finite()
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 NotImplementedError                       Traceback (most recent call
 last)

 /home/sage/sage-4.6.1.rc1/devel/sage-main/<ipython console> in <module>()

 /sage/sage-4.6.1.rc1/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/rings/ring.so
 in sage.rings.ring.Ring.is_finite (sage/rings/ring.c:5810)()

 NotImplementedError:
 }}}

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