Generators for the $C^m$-closures of Ideals

Abstract

Let $\mathscr{R}$ denote the ring of real polynomials on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Fix $m\geq 0$, and let $A_{1},\cdots ,A_{M}\in \mathscr{R}$. The $ C^{m}$-closure of $\left( A_{1},\cdots ,A_{M}\right) $, denoted here by $ \left[ A_{1},\cdots ,A_{M};C^{m}\right] $, is the ideal of all $f\in \mathscr{R}$ expressible in the form $f=F_{1}A_{1}+\cdots +F_{M}A_{M}$ with each $F_{i}\in C^{m}\left( \mathbb{R}^{n}\right) $. In this paper we exhibit an algorithm to compute generators for $\left[ A_{1},\cdots ,A_{M};C^{m}\right] $.