Talk:Indicial calculus

Would it be possible to include a reference to some book or article explaining indicial calculus? Thanks, Jitse Niesen (talk) 20:46, 15 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm not familiar with this topic, so can only do detective work. The few other edits by the original creator of this article (an IP) seem helpful (like reverting obvious vandalism). A Google Scholar search for "index calculus" (quoted) turns up apparently relevant material. Algorithms based on index calculus are frequently mentioned in cryptography, an example being this PARI/GP code. Wikipedia itself already redirects index calculus to Cyclic group, which has a brief but similar discussion, and there is a stub article with a reference link at Index calculus algorithm. The chosen title "Indicial Calculus" seems poor, for three reasons: (1) improper capitalization, (2) should be "Index calculus" to agree with literature, (3) confusion with tensor calculus using indices and Einstein summation and so on. Or, perhaps this should be merged with one of the two other articles. --KSmrqT 02:06, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Good thinking; it didn't occur to me to search for "index calculus". Given the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics, I decided to discard the current article and replace it by a redirect to cyclic group (redirects to sections do not work). -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 14:35, 16 September 2005 (UTC)