对于多项式，获取其所有极值并通过突出显示所有单调部分来绘制它

问题描述

有人问了我这个有趣的问题，我认为值得在这里发布，因为在 Stack Overflow 上没有任何相关主题.

假设我在长度为 n 的向量 pc 中有多项式系数，其中变量 的多项式为 n - 1x 可以以其原始形式表示:

pc[1] + pc[2] * x + pc[3] * x ^ 2 + ... + pc[n] * x ^ (n - 1)

R 核心函数 polyroot 可以在 complex 域中找到该多项式的所有根.但通常我们也对极值感兴趣，对于单变量函数，局部极小值和极大值交替出现，将函数分解成单调的部分.

我的问题是:

1. 如何获得多项式的实域中的所有极值(实际上是所有鞍点)?
2. 如何用 2 种配色方案绘制这个多项式:红色代表上升部分，绿色代表下降部分?

最好把它写成一个函数，这样我们就可以轻松探索/可视化多项式.

例如，考虑一个 5 次多项式:

pc 

解决方案

获得多项式的所有鞍点

事实上，可以通过对多项式的一阶导数使用polyroot来找到鞍点.这是一个执行此操作的函数.

SaddlePoly 

计算多项式

我们需要能够评估多项式才能绘制它.

Someone asked me this interesting question and I think it worthwhile posting it here, as there has not been any relevant thread on Stack Overflow.

Suppose I have polynomial coefficients in a length-n vector pc, where a polynomial of degree n - 1 for variable x can be expressed in its raw form:

pc[1] + pc[2] * x + pc[3] * x ^ 2 + ... + pc[n] * x ^ (n - 1)

R core function polyroot can find all roots of this polynomial in complex domain. But often we are also interested in extrema, as for a univariate function, local minima and maxima turn up alternately, breaking the function into monotonic pieces.

My questions are:

1. How to obtain all extrema (actually all saddle points) in real domain of a polynomial?
2. How to sketch this polynomial with 2-colour scheme: red for ascending pieces and green for descending pieces?

It would be good to write this up as a function so that we can easily explore / visualize a polynomial.

As an example, consider a polynomial of degree 5:

pc <- c(1, -2.2, -13.4, -5.1, 1.9, 0.52)

解决方案

obtain all saddle points of a polynomial

In fact, saddle points can be found by using polyroot on the 1st derivative of the polynomial. Here is a function doing it.

SaddlePoly <- function (pc) {
  ## a polynomial needs be at least quadratic to have saddle points
  if (length(pc) < 3L) {
    message("A polynomial needs be at least quadratic to have saddle points!")
    return(numeric(0))
    }
  ## polynomial coefficient of the 1st derivative
  pc1 <- pc[-1] * seq_len(length(pc) - 1)
  ## roots in complex domain
  croots <- polyroot(pc1)
  ## retain roots in real domain
  ## be careful when testing 0 for floating point numbers
  rroots <- Re(croots)[abs(Im(croots)) < 1e-14]
  ## note that `polyroot` returns multiple root with multiplicies
  ## return unique real roots (in ascending order)
  sort(unique(rroots))
  }

xs <- SaddlePoly(pc)
#[1] -3.77435640 -1.20748286 -0.08654384  2.14530617

---

evaluate a polynomial

We need be able to evaluate a polynomial in order to plot it. My this answer has defined a function g that can evaluate a polynomial and its arbitrary derivatives. Here I copy this function in and rename it to PolyVal.

PolyVal <- function (x, pc, nderiv = 0L) {
  ## check missing aruments
  if (missing(x) || missing(pc)) stop ("arguments missing with no default!")
  ## polynomial order p
  p <- length(pc) - 1L
  ## number of derivatives
  n <- nderiv
  ## earlier return?
  if (n > p) return(rep.int(0, length(x)))
  ## polynomial basis from degree 0 to degree `(p - n)`
  X <- outer(x, 0:(p - n), FUN = "^")
  ## initial coefficients
  ## the additional `+ 1L` is because R vector starts from index 1 not 0
  beta <- pc[n:p + 1L]
  ## factorial multiplier
  beta <- beta * factorial(n:p) / factorial(0:(p - n))
  ## matrix vector multiplication
  base::c(X %*% beta)
  }

For example, we can evaluate the polynomial at all its saddle points:

PolyVal(xs, pc)
#[1]  79.912753  -4.197986   1.093443 -51.871351

---

sketch a polynomial with a 2-colour scheme for monotonic pieces

Here is a function to view / explore a polynomial.

ViewPoly <- function (pc, extend = 0.1) {
  ## get saddle points
  xs <- SaddlePoly(pc)
  ## number of saddle points (if 0 the whole polynomial is monotonic)
  n_saddles <- length(xs)
  if (n_saddles == 0L) {
    message("the polynomial is monotonic; program exits!")
    return(NULL)
    }
  ## set a reasonable xlim to include all saddle points
  if (n_saddles == 1L) xlim <- c(xs - 1, xs + 1)
  else xlim <- extendrange(xs, range(xs), extend)
  x <- c(xlim[1], xs, xlim[2])
  ## number of monotonic pieces
  k <- length(xs) + 1L
  ## monotonicity (positive for ascending and negative for descending)
  y <- PolyVal(x, pc)
  mono <- diff(y)
  ylim <- range(y)
  ## colour setting (red for ascending and green for descending)
  colour <- rep.int(3, k)
  colour[mono > 0] <- 2
  ## loop through pieces and plot the polynomial
  plot(x, y, type = "n", xlim = xlim, ylim = ylim)
  i <- 1L
  while (i <= k) {
    ## an evaluation grid between x[i] and x[i + 1]
    xg <- seq.int(x[i], x[i + 1L], length.out = 20)
    yg <- PolyVal(xg, pc)
    lines(xg, yg, col = colour[i])
    i <- i + 1L
    }
  ## add saddle points
  points(xs, y[2:k], pch = 19)
  ## return (x, y)
  list(x = x, y = y)
  }

We can visualize the example polynomial in the question by:

ViewPoly(pc)
#$x
#[1] -4.07033952 -3.77435640 -1.20748286 -0.08654384  2.14530617  2.44128930
#
#$y
#[1]  72.424185  79.912753  -4.197986   1.093443 -51.871351 -45.856876

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