Orders of factors in analytic families #
The order of a slice of a jointly analytic function cannot increase near a parameter where
it is finite. Consequently, if a finite product has constant finite slice order, each factor
has constant slice order. Over β or β, each factor is therefore a power of the distinguished
variable times an analytic unit, locally at the base point.
Applied to the product of squared differences of analytic polynomial roots, this gives the power-times-unit form of each root difference from the corresponding form of the discriminant.
References #
- S. McCallum, A. ParusiΕski, L. Paunescu, Validity proof of Lazard's method for CAD construction, J. Symbolic Comput. 92 (2019), Β§4.
Near a parameter where a jointly analytic function has finite slice order m,
its slice orders are at most m.
If a finite product of jointly analytic functions has constant finite slice order, then every factor has constant slice order near the parameter.
Every factor of a jointly analytic product of constant finite slice order is locally a centered power of the distinguished variable times an analytic unit.