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Allow Laurent polynomials and Laurent series in db #36

Open bmatschke opened 3 years ago

bmatschke commented 3 years ago

Laurent polynomials in several variables should be an easy generalization of the already used model for polynomials. For Laurent series, this can be done similarly to p-adic numbers in case of one variable; however it's not clear at the moment what kind of "error" we should allow in the multivariate case: Somewhat natural would be to give Laurent series up to terms of total degree larger than some bound, or up to O(x_0^{a0} ... x{n-1}^{a_{n-1}}) for some (a0, ..., a{n-1}). We may allow the error to lie in other arbitrary monomial ideals. But then we have two problems: 1. Notation would become cumbersome. 2. Efficient search.

So perhaps only allow Laurent polynomials (multivariate) and univariate Laurent series.