Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B19e (1988).
[Formerly: Publ. I.R.M.A. Strasbourg, 1988, 361/S-19, p.
126.]
Arne Dür
Über die kanonische Form binärer Formen
Abstract.
According to Sylvester, in general,
a binary form P of degree n with
complex coefficients can be written as a sum of at most (n/2+1)
n-th powers of linear forms. Such a representation of minimal
length is called a canonical form of
P. Algorithms for the computation of a canonical form
were already given by Sylvester and Gundelfinger. More
efficiently, however, is an extended form of the Berlekamp
algorithm for the decoding of Reed-Solomon codes, due to the
author [Discrete Math. 90 (1991), 21-40].
The following version is available:
The paper has been finally published under the title
"On computing the canonical form for a binary form of odd degree" in
J. Symbolic Comput. 8 (1989), 327-333.