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Implements the domain with 3 atomic operations for commutative algebra using SymPy's Gröbner basis machinery.

Closes #1869

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Operation Description
polynomial.ideal.radical.compute Compute the radical √I of a polynomial ideal
polynomial.ideal.radical_membership.decide Check if f ∈ √I
polynomial.ideal.quotient.compute Compute the colon ideal (I : J) via Gröbner basis elimination

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  • SymPy Gröbner basis: All operations use SymPy's function with graded reverse lexicographic ordering for exact polynomial computation.
  • Ideal quotient via elimination: The colon ideal (I : J) is computed using the standard elimination approach with an auxiliary variable t, computing Gröbner basis of (I, t*J) and extracting t-free generators.
  • Exact symbolic arithmetic: All polynomial operations use exact rational arithmetic, no floating-point.

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Add commutative_algebra_ops domain with 3 operations: ideal radical
computation, radical membership check, and ideal quotient via
Gröbner basis elimination. Uses SymPy for exact polynomial computation.

Closes #1869
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Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES — none of the three advertised commutative-algebra operations is implemented correctly.

1. radical.compute returns the input ideal unchanged

The kernel only parses and expands each supplied generator. It never computes a Gröbner basis, square-free decomposition, primary decomposition, or radical. For the example

I = <x², xy> = x<x,y>,

the radical is <x>, not <x²,xy>. Moreover, taking square-free parts generator-by-generator would not be a valid radical-ideal algorithm in general.

Do not expose radical computation until there is an exact supported backend/algorithm with reconstruction and membership tests.

2. radical_membership.decide has no candidate polynomial and always returns false

IdealRequest contains only variables and ideal generators; there is no f whose membership is being decided. The operation body unconditionally returns False, so its own example—“is x in √<x²>?”—would receive the wrong answer. Add an explicit candidate polynomial and implement the Rabinowitsch test

f ∈ √I  iff  1 ∈ I + <1 - t f>

over an extended exact polynomial ring, or remove the operation.

3. The quotient elimination ideal is wrong

Appending t*g to I and eliminating t does not compute (I:g); it ordinarily contributes no new polynomial independent of t, so this degenerates back toward I. For a principal generator, a standard elimination construction uses I + <1 - t g> and eliminates t. For J=<g₁,…,g_m>, compute ⋂(I:g_i) or use a proven module/ideal-quotient algorithm.

For the supplied example,

(<x²,xy> : <x>) = <x,y>,

not the original <x²,xy>.

The broad except Exception: return generators_a is especially unsafe: a backend failure is converted into a confident but generally false mathematical answer. Fail closed.

Finally, replace raw sympify strings with the repository's canonical polynomial-ring value, validate declared variables/domain/order, and impose degree/monomial/coefficient/work bounds. This should extend the existing polynomial/ideal owner rather than create a parallel _ops domain.

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[Commutative algebra] Add exact ideal radical, saturation, dimension, Hilbert-series, and primary-decomposition operations

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