English

Automated proving in planar geometry based on the complex number identity method and elimination

Computational Geometry 2025-11-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We improve the complex number identity proving method to a fully automated procedure, based on elimination ideals. By using declarative equations or rewriting each real-relational hypothesis hih_i to hirih_i-r_i, and the thesis tt to trt-r, clearing the denominators and introducing an extra expression with a slack variable, we eliminate all free and relational point variables. From the obtained ideal II in Q[r,r1,r2,]\mathbb{Q}[r,r_1,r_2,\ldots] we can find a conclusive result. It plays an important role that if r1,r2,r_1,r_2,\ldots are real, rr must also be real if there is a linear polynomial p(r)Ip(r)\in I, unless division by zero occurs when expressing rr. Our results are presented in Mathematica, Maple and in a new version of the Giac computer algebra system. Finally, we present a prototype of the automated procedure in an experimental version of the dynamic geometry software GeoGebra.

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@article{arxiv.2511.14728,
  title  = {Automated proving in planar geometry based on the complex number identity method and elimination},
  author = {Zoltán Kovács and Xicheng Peng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.14728},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

15 pages, 4 figures

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