The package CRACK for solving large overdetermined systems
Authors: Wolf Thomas 
Published: January 2007

The program CRACK is a computer algebra package written in
REDUCE for the solution of over-determined systems of algebraic,
ordinary or partial differential equations with at most polynomial
non-linearity. It is available as part of version 3.8 of the REDUCE
system (dated April 2004) and the latest development version can be
downloaded from http://lie.math.brocku.ca/crack/.
The purpose of this poster is to accompany a software
demonstration of CRACK at ISSAC 2005. The poster is supposed to
give a graphical overview of CRACK, emphasizing features which are
special to the package. Those are
&bull; a rich interface, with visualization aids for
inspecting large systems, including
- for each equation its properties, history and investigations
that have already been done with the equation,
- the occurrence of all derivatives of selected functions in any
equation,
- a statistical overview of the system (number of equations and
functions in dependence of number of independent variables),
- a matrix display of occurrences of unknown constants/functions
in all equations,
- a count of the total number of appearances of each
unknown,
- the determination of not under-determined subsystems,
- a listing of all sub- and sub-sub-.. cases investigated so
far, with their assumptions, number of steps and number of
solutions,
- graphical displays of size related measures of the computation
done so far;
&bull; a discussion of possibilities to trade interactively
or automatically the speed of the solution process versus safety
(avoidance of expression swell):
- only length-reducing versus complete Gr&ouml;bner basis
computation steps.
- substitutions in shorter equations only, i.e. only in a
sub-system versus substitutions in the complete system,
- growth bounded substitutions versus general substitutions,
- case splittings (induced by factorizations, substitutions with
potentially vanishing coefficients or adhoc case distinctions)
versus Gr&ouml;bner basis steps,
- an investment in the length reduction of equations to reach
sparse systems with multiple benefits;
&bull; algorithmic extensions which include
- the ability to collect and apply syzygies which result as a
by-product in the process of computing a differential
Gr&ouml;bner basis to integrate linear PDEs.
- the treatment of inequalities: their usage, active collection
and derivation, and their constant update in an ongoing reduction
process based on newly derived equations.
- the capability added by Winfried Neun (ZIB Berlin) to run in a
truly parallel mode on a beowulf cluster, recently also ported to
64bit AMD processors.
- post-computation procedures, especially the possibility to
merge solutions of parametric linear algebraic systems and to
automate the production of web-pages for solutions that are
found.
- the ability to separate expressions with respect to
independent variables which occur polynomially but with variable
exponents, leading to automatically investigated case distinctions
of exponents being equal or not;
&bull; safety enhancing measures as
- the ability to backup and re-load the whole session,
- the automatic storing of the complete keyboard input during a
session with the opportunity to feed this stored input into a new
session,
- the possibility to impose time restrictions of notoriously
slow sub-steps, like factorizations and sometimes the computation
and reduction of S-polynomials in a Gr&ouml;bner basis
computations,
- a method to interrupt an ongoing automatic computation and
change it to interactive mode
The poster in landscape format will display the above four
topics in boxes. For some of the sub-items above a screen output
will give a visual impression, like the matrix indicating
occurrences of unknowns in equations. In the following publications
the solution of large overdetermined systems was a crucial
ingredient:
&bull; the solution of large bi-linear algebraic systems and
automatic merging of obtained solutions:
- Wolf, T., Efimovskaya, O. V.: Classification of integrable
quadratic Hamiltonians on e(3), Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, vol
8, no 2 (2003), p 155--162.
- Sokolov, V. V., Wolf, T.: Classification of integrable
polynomial vector evolution equations, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34
(2001) 11139--11148.
- Tsuchida, T. and Wolf, T.: Classification of integrable
coupled systems with one scalar and one vector unknown, preprint
nlin.SI/0412003 (2004) 60 pages, to appear in J. Phys. A: Math.
Gen.
- Sokolov, V. V. and Wolf, T.: Integrable quadratic Hamiltonians
on <i>so</i>(4) and <i>so</i>(3, 1),
preprint (2004) 16 pages, nlin.SI/0405066.
- Kiselev, A. and Wolf, T.: New recursive chains of N=1
homogeneous superequations, to appear in proceedings of "Symmetry
in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics", Kyiv 2005.
&bull; the solution of extensive overdetermined
ODE/PDE-systems:
- Anco, S. and Wolf, T.: Some symmetry classifications of
hyperbolic vector evolution equations, nlin.SI/0412015, JNMP,
Volume 12, Supplement 1 (2005), p 13--31.