Automated proving in planar geometry based on the complex number identity method and elimination
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 to , and the thesis to , clearing the denominators and introducing an extra expression with a slack variable, we eliminate all free and relational point variables. From the obtained ideal in we can find a conclusive result. It plays an important role that if are real, must also be real if there is a linear polynomial , unless division by zero occurs when expressing . 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.
Cite
@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