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Greatest common divisor of several polynomials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

S. Barnett
S. Barnett
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Bradford, Yorkshire
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Abstract

Given a polynomial a(λ) with degree n, and polynomials b1(λ), …, bm(λ) of degree not greater than n – 1, then the degree k of the greatest common divisor of the polynomials is equal to the rank defect of the matrix R = [b1(A), b2(A), …, bm(A)], where A is a suitable companion matrix of a(λ). Furthermore, it is shown that if the first k rows of R are expressed as linear combinations of the remaining n – k rows (which are linearly independent) then the greatest common divisor is given by the coefficients of row k + 1 in these expressions. A simple expression is derived for R and a permutation of the columns of this matrix establishes a direct connexion with controllability of a constant linear control system. Finally, when m = 1 a relationship between the corresponding R and Sylvester's matrix is exhibited.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , September 1971 , pp. 263 - 268
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1971

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