Effective certification of approximate solutions to systems of equations involving analytic functions

Abstract

We develop algorithms for certifying an approximation to a nonsingular solution of a square system of equations built from univariate analytic functions. These algorithms are based on the existence of oracles for evaluating basic data about the input analytic functions. One approach for certification is based on alpha-theory while the other is based on the Krawczyk generalization of Newton's iteration. We show that the necessary oracles exist for D-finite functions and compare the two algorithmic approaches for this case using our software implementation in SageMath.