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deformMCMModule(...,DegreeLimit=>...) -- Compute only up to this exponent

Description

This parameter is an integer $ n $ such that in the result of the computation the versality criterion holds only after reducing the relevant rings modulo the maximal homogeneous ideal to the power $ n+1 $. Concretely, this means that the output may have incorrect terms with total exponent greater than $ n $. If the input is positively graded, all deformation parameters have strictly positive degree, and $ n $ is sufficiently large, then no terms of degree greater than $ n $ appear in the output, and the result is versal. In this case, the maximum of $ d / deg x $ where $ d $ is the degree of the equation of the hypersurface and $ x $ ranges over all variables in the ring of the hypersurface and all deformation parameters, should suffice.

Further information

Functions with optional argument named DegreeLimit :