Three kinds of extraneous factors in Dixon resultants

Abstract

Dixon resultant is a basic elimination method which has been used widely in the high technology fields of automatic control, robotics, etc. But how to remove extraneous factors in Dixon resultants has been a very difficult problem. In this paper, we discover some extraneous factors by expressing the Dixon resultant in a linear combination of original polynomial system. Furthermore, it has been proved that the factors mentioned above include three parts which come from Dixon derived polynomials, Dixon matrix and the resulting resultant expression by substituting Dixon derived polynomials respectively.