Gago Vargas, Manuel JesúsHartillo Hermoso, IsabelMartín Morales, JorgeUcha Enríquez, José María2015-03-272015-03-272006978-3-540-45182-2http://hdl.handle.net/11441/23605Sudoku is a logic-based placement puzzle. We recall how to translate this puzzle into a 9-colouring problem which is equivalent to a (big) algebraic system of polynomial equations. We study how far Gröbner bases techniques can be used to treat these systems produced by Sudokus. This general purpose tool can not be considered as a good solver, but we show that it can be useful to provide information on systems that are ---in spite of their origin--- hard to solve.application/pdfenghttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Gröbner basessystem of polynomial equationsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess