ZpL

Abstract

We present a new package ZpL for the mathematical software system SageMath. It implements a sharp tracking of precision on p-adic numbers, following the theory of ultrametric precision introduced in a previous paper by the same authors. The underlying algorithms are mostly based on automatic differentiation techniques. We introduce them, study their complexity and discuss our design choices. We illustrate the benefits of our package (in comparison with previous implementations) with a large sample of examples coming from linear algebra, commutative algebra and differential equations.