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In this paper, we discuss the decomposition problem for multivariate polynomials and the possible definitions of decomposable/indecomposable polynomial. We also present a polynomial time algorithm for decomposing multivariate polynomials over an arbitrary field.

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von zur Gathen, J., Gutierrez, J., Rubio, R. (1999). On Multivariate Polynomial Decomposition. In: Ganzha, V.G., Mayr, E.W., Vorozhtsov, E.V. (eds) Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing CASC’99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60218-4_35

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