Problem 44259. Product of two multivariate polynomials

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MATLAB <a href = "https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/polynomials.html">has a few functions</a> for creating and manipulating single-variable polynomials, but outside of the Symbolic Math Toolbox there is nothing for multivariate polynomials such as <tt>y-x^2</tt> or <tt>x^2+y^2+z^2-1</tt>. Generalizing the approach for one variable, we can define an array of coefficients with one dimension for each variable. We will index them in decreasing order, for example if <tt>p(x) = A + B x^3</tt>, then the coefficients are<pre class="language-matlab">c = [B 0 0 A].
</pre>Note this is same order as used by the builtin functions. A couple more examples: if <tt>p(x,y) = x - y^2</tt>, then<pre class="language-matlab">c = [0 -1; 0 0; 1 0].
</pre>If <tt>p(x,y,z) = z-2</tt>, then <tt>c</tt> has dimensions <tt>[1 1 2]</tt> with <tt>c(:,:,1) = 1</tt> and <tt>c(:,:,2) = -2</tt>.The challenge is to create a function <tt>polyMult</tt> that takes two arrays of coefficients for polynomials <tt>p1</tt> and <tt>p2</tt> and returns the coefficients for <tt>p1*p2</tt>. See the tests for examples.

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Predrag Vukovic on 23 Nov 2020

Can you explain why is the same matrix c = [0 -1; 0 0 ; 1 0] used to represent two different polynomials p(x,y) = x-y^2 (as in problem definition above) and p(x,y) = y - x^2 as in test example 3 on the solution page?

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