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- From: beigel-richard@CS.YALE.EDU (Richard Beigel)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: rational zeroes of multivariate polynomials
- Message-ID: <199208250618.AA15194@BEECH.THEORY.CS.YALE.EDU>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 18:03:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Reply-To: Richard Beigel <beigel-richard@CS.YALE.EDU>
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- Matijasevic proved that there is no algorithm to find integer zeroes
- of multivariate polynomials. In fact, this problem is m-equivalent to
- the halting problem. What about finding rational zeroes? Is that
- problem decidable? m-equivalent to the halting problem?
-
- -- Richard
-
- [ This problem is listed as an open problem in the article by Davis,
- Matijasevic and J. Robinson, in their paper on Hilbert's 10th problem
- in the Hilbert Problem Symposium held in 1974. Does anyone know of
- any further results on this?: Editor ]
-