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1.1.12 Tutorial: homomorphisms
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CoCoA-5 lets you create ring homomorphisms; these are useful for
various purposes such as "moving" a value from one ring to another.
A homomorphism from a polynomial ring must state what the images
of the indeterminates are. If the codomain is also a polynomial
ring with the same ring of coefficients then use
PolyAlgebraHom
,
otherwise use
PolyRingHom
giving also the homomorphism saying
how the coefficient ring is mapped.
Some "special" homomorphisms can be created easily via dedicated functions.
If there is a canonical homomorphism between the rings then this
may be specified using
CanonicalHom
.
For the homomorphism which embed the coefficent ring into a polynomial
ring use
CoeffEmbeddingHom
.
/**/ P1 ::= QQ[x,y]; // polys in x,y with coefficients in QQ
/**/ P2 ::= QQ[a,b]; // polys in a,b with coefficients in QQ
/**/ use P2; IndetImages := [a^2, b^3];
/**/ phi := PolyAlgebraHom(P1, P2, IndetImages);
/**/ use P1;
/**/ f := 2*x^2 + 3*y + 4;
/**/ phi(f);
2*a^4 + 3*b^3 + 4
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