Computing quotients by connected solvable groups.

Consider an action of a connected solvable group G on an affine variety X. This paper presents an algorithm that constructs a semi-invariant f ∈ K [ X ] = : R and computes the invariant ring (R f) G together with a presentation. The morphism X f → Spec ((R f) G) obtained from the algorithm is a universal geometric quotient. In fact, it is even better than that: a so-called excellent quotient. If R is a polynomial ring, the algorithm requires no Gröbner basis computations. If R is a complete intersection, then so is (R f) G. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]