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l_minimal

Usage:
    <l_minimal I J
Find a minimal generating set J for the submodule I over localization R
at the homogeneous maximal ideal of the base ring of I.
Parameters:
 I = mxn matrix, whose columns are not necessarily homogeneous.
Output values:
 J = mxr matrix, whose columns minimally generate the submodule I over R.

This script uses l_minimal0 to do most of the work.
Caveats:  (1)The resulting minimal generators may not be the simnplest
possible.  For example, if I = (x2+x3), then over R, I = (x2).  This
script will not find such a representation.  Nevertheless, this is an
extremely useful script.
(2) The base ring of I must not include the variable "t[-100]".



Sorin Popescu
Fri Feb 14 17:37:19 EST 1997