poincareN C
This method encodes information about the internal and homological degrees of the generators of each term in a chain complex. It returns an element in the ring of Laurent polynomials whose monomials correspond to the degrees of the monomials in the underlying ring of $C$, together with a variable to record the homological degree. When the $i$-th term $C_i$ of the complex $C$ is generated by elements of degree $d_{i,1}, d_{i,2}, \dotsc$, this Laurent polynomial is $\sum_i (-1)^i \sum_j S^i T^{d_{i,j}}$, where we use multi-index notation $T^d = T_0^{d_0} T_1^{d_1} \dotsb T_r^{d_r}$.
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Since the number of variables in the degrees ring is equal to the rank of the grading group, the Poincare polynomial may have more than one variable.
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If the terms in the complex are not free, then this method uses just the degrees of the generators of each term.
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The source of this document is in Complexes/ChainComplexDoc.m2:4316:0.