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Prime -- option to declare if the input ideal is prime

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Description

By default the ideal is assumed to be prime. If the ideal is not prime then the internal procedure to compute the tropicalization is different. It is used gfan_tropicalbrute force instead of gfan_tropicaltraverse.

i1 : QQ[x,y,z];
i2 : I=ideal(x^2+y^2-2*x*y);

o2 : Ideal of QQ[x..z]
i3 : isPrime I

o3 = false
i4 : T=tropicalVariety(I,Prime=>false)

o4 = T

o4 : TropicalCycle

Functions with optional argument named Prime :

For the programmer

The object Prime is a symbol.