RandomPoints package for Macaulay2

Abstract

We present {\tt RandomPoints}, a package in \emph{Macaulay2} designed mainly to identify rational and geometric points in a variety over a finite field. We provide tools to estimate the dimension of a variety. We also present methods to obtain non-vanishing minors of a given size in a given matrix, by evaluating the matrix at a point.

arXiv comment10 pages, comments welcome. Package by Sankhaneel Bisui, Zhan Jiang, Sarasij Maitra, Thái Thành Nguyên, Frank-Olaf Schreyer, Karl Schwede. The current version can be found here https://github.com/Macaulay2/Workshop-2020-Cleveland/blob/FastLinAlg/FastLinAlg/M2/RandomPoints.m2