How to recognize zero? (Q1382029): Difference between revisions

An elementary point is a point in complex \(n\) space which is an isolated, nonsingular solution of \(n\) equations in \(n\) variables, each equation being either of the form \(p=0\), where \(p\) is a polynomial in \(\mathbb{Q}[x_1, \dots, x_n]\), or of the form \(x_j-e^{x_i}=0\). An elementary number is the polynomial image of an elementary point. The scope of this paper is to present a semi-algorithm to decide whether or not a given elementary number is zero. It is proved that this semi-algorithm is an algorithm, i.e. that it always terminates, unless it is given a problem containing a counterexample to Schanuel's conjecture.