Given two polynomials $f$ and $g$ of degree at most $n$, their degree $n$ Bézout matrix is the $n\times n$ matrix $(c_{ij})$ where \[ \frac{f(x)g(y)-f(y)g(x)}{x-y} = \sum_{i,j=1}^n c_{ij} x^i y^{j}.\] The determinant of this matrix is the resultant of the two polynomials.
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- 2022-03-24 17:59:31 by Bjorn Poonen
- 2019-09-20 16:48:49 by Wanlin Li
- 2019-05-04 21:17:00 by Andrew Sutherland
- 2017-11-06 15:57:02 by John Jones