Parametric systems of linear congruences.

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This is a continuation of the authors' previous work [Matzat, B. Heinrich (ed.) et al., Algorithmic algebra and number theory. Selected papers from a conference, Heidelberg, 1997, Berlin: Springer, 221--247 (1999; Zbl 0934.68130)] on quantifier elimination. They use an extended quantifier elimination procedure for discretely valued fields, and devise algorithms for solving multivariate systems of linear congruences over the integers. Their computational methods split into two stages -- first finding solutions in suitable rings of \(p\)-adic integers, secondly lifting these solutions to the integers. The first stage is computationally hard, unlike the second which is efficient and straightforward. In special case when each modulus is a power of a fixed prime, the first stage can be worked out uniformly for all primes. The authors claim this to be the main advantage of their methods over the well-known methods in linear algebra for concrete fixed primes. Then for the uniform case, they have devised methods for making the lifting step as uniform as possible. Then these methods can be used in the more general case of arbitrary moduli. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0970.00027].












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