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HilbertSeriesShifts

the Hilbert-Poincare series
Syntax

HilbertSeriesShifts(M: Module, ShiftsList: LIST):TAGGED("$hp.PSeries")
HilbertSeriesShifts(M: TAGGED("Quotient"), ShiftsList: LIST)
                                           :TAGGED("$hp.PSeries")


Description
This function computes the Hilbert-Poincare series of a (single-graded) module M with shifts. The input, M, must be homogeneous (with respect the weights list). In the standard case, i.e. the weights of all indeterminates are 1, the result is simplified so that the power appearing in the denominator is the dimension of M.

The function PoincareShifts is exacly the same as HilbertSeriesShifts .

NOTES:

(i) the coefficient ring must be a field.

(ii) these functions produce tagged objects: they cannot safely be (non-)equality to other values.

For more information, see the article: A.M. Bigatti, "Computations of Hilbert-Poincare Series" J. Pure Appl. Algebra, 119/3 (1997), 237--253.

Example
  Use P ::= QQ[x,y,z];
  M := Module([x,y^3], [x-z,0]);
  HilbertSeriesShifts(M, [2,0]);  -- HilbertPoincare series of a shifted module
(2x^3) / (1-x)^3
-------------------------------
  PoincareShifts(P^2/M, [3,1]);   -- HP series of a shifted quotient module
(x + x^2 + 2x^3) / (1-x)^2
-------------------------------


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