whether or not the paren't algebra's zero element is a root
of this element's minimal polynomial.
+ That is... unless the coefficients of our algebra's
+ "characteristic polynomial of" function are already cached!
+ In that case, we just use the determinant (which will be fast
+ as a result).
+
Beware that we can't use the superclass method, because it
relies on the algebra being associative.
else:
return False
+ if self.parent()._charpoly_coefficients.is_in_cache():
+ # The determinant will be quicker than computing the minimal
+ # polynomial from scratch, most likely.
+ return (not self.det().is_zero())
+
# In fact, we only need to know if the constant term is non-zero,
# so we can pass in the field's zero element instead.
zero = self.base_ring().zero()
"""
B = self.parent().natural_basis()
W = self.parent().natural_basis_space()
+
+ # This is just a manual "from_vector()", but of course
+ # matrix spaces aren't vector spaces in sage, so they
+ # don't have a from_vector() method.
return W.linear_combination(zip(B,self.to_vector()))
sage: (J0, J5, J1) = J.peirce_decomposition(c1)
sage: (f0, f1, f2) = J1.gens()
sage: f0.spectral_decomposition()
- [(0, 1.000000000000000?*f2), (1, 1.000000000000000?*f0)]
+ [(0, f2), (1, f0)]
"""
A = self.subalgebra_generated_by(orthonormalize_basis=True)