Description ----------- Partial implementation of the algorithm by Timothy G. Abbott, Kiran S. Kedlaya, and David Roe described in the preprint math.NT/0601508, with the additional twist that you can do surfaces in weigthed projected spaces. Requirements ------------ You will need a compiler and the gmp library installed. Usage ----- Step 1: Edit --data.h to suit to your system and choose degrees d1,d2,d3,d4 and d, choose the prime p and the power r. --Makefile, change --march=nocona to --march= or just remove the --march= option entirely. Step 2: Compile with the command ``make''. Step 3: Run with ./tester Enjoy! TODO ---- 1. Make one_step_down faster by implementing Kiran's idea of precomputing the expressions for suitable powers of the coordinates. Tried this but it is not faster in our setup. Done. 2. Use/find/implement a better library for scalars. Done: now the program uses the GMP, the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library. 3. Output to file for input in pari. Started doing this: now there is a pari script that tries to find a Weil polynomial p-adically close to a given integer polynomial, it is called post.gp 4. Implement the algorithm for estimating precision from math.NT/0601508 5. Make the program work in cases where the function check_flatness returns -1.