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isotropicSpace -- part of a RandomNicePencil

Synopsis

Description

a row matrix whose entries are generators of the ideal of an isotropic subspace for qq.

i1 : kk=ZZ/101;
i2 : g=1;
i3 : rNP=randNicePencil(kk,g);
i4 : u=rNP.isotropicSpace

o4 = | x_0 z_1 z_2 |

                                      1                               3
o4 : Matrix (kk[x , y , z ..z , s, t])  <-- (kk[x , y , z ..z , s, t])
                 0   0   1   2                   0   0   1   2

See also

For the programmer

The object isotropicSpace is a symbol.