p-adic algorithm for bivariate Gröbner bases

We present a p-adic algorithm to recover the lexicographic Gröbner basis of an ideal in with a generating set in , with a complexity that is less than cubic in terms of the dimension of and softly linear in the height of its coefficients. We observe that previous results of Lazard’s that use Hermite normal forms to compute Gröbner bases for ideals with two generators can be generalized to a set of generators. We use this result to obtain a bound on the height of the coefficients of , and to control the probability of choosing a good prime p to build the p-adic expansion of .