Local Dimension Finder Page

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LocalDimFinder is a Module for Bertini

Facts in brief:

• Purpose: Computing local dimensions of algebraic sets
• Approach: Uses Bertini
• Authors: Jonathan D. Hauenstein, Andrew J. Sommese, Charles W. Wampler
• Background: See the manual and the article (C.W. Wampler, J.D. Hauenstein, and A,J. Sommese, Mechanism Mobility and a Local Dimension Test), where we first used this software on mechanism mobility problems.
• The license policy is the same as that for Bertini.

Software and manual:

· LocalDimFinderApple_v1.0.tar.gz (Apple version, 2.6 MB)

· LocalDimFinderLinux64_v1.0.tar.gz (Linux 64-bit version, 2.9 MB)

· LocalDimFinderLinux32_v1.0.tar.gz (Linux 32-bit version, 2.8 MB)

· LocalDimFinderWindows32_v1.0.zip (Windows version using Cygwin, 2.3 MB)

· MechanismMobilityExamples.zip (example systems using zip, 8KB: see the article)

· MechanismMobilityExamples.tar.gz (example systems using .tar.gz, 4KB: see the article)

· LocalDimFinder.pdf (user's manual)

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Maintained by Andrew J. Sommese/ sommese@nd.edu /revised May 21, 2010