Modernizing PHCpack through phcpy

Abstract

PHCpack is a large software package for solving systems of polynomial equations. The executable phc is menu driven and file oriented. This paper describes the development of phcpy, a Python interface to PHCpack. Instead of navigating through menus, users of phcpy solve systems in the Python shell or via scripts. Persistent objects replace intermediate files.

Part of the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Python in Science (EuroSciPy 2013), Pierre de Buyl and Nelle Varoquaux editors, (2014)

References in corpus (1)

• PHCpack in Macaulay2

Cited by in corpus (6)

• On the maximal number of real embeddings of minimally rigid graphs in ${\mathbb{R}}^2$, ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ and $S^2$
• A Polyhedral Method to Compute All Affine Solution Sets of Sparse Polynomial Systems
• On the maximal number of real embeddings of spatial minimally rigid graphs
• Tracking Many Solution Paths of a Polynomial Homotopy on a Graphics Processing Unit
• Solving Polynomial Systems in the Cloud with Polynomial Homotopy Continuation
• The Method of Gauss-Newton to Compute Power Series Solutions of Polynomial Homotopies