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Elementary recursive quantifier elimination based on Thom encoding and sign determination

Algebraic Geometry 2017-02-28 v2 Computational Complexity Logic

Abstract

We describe a new quantifier elimination algorithm for real closed fields based on Thom encoding and sign determination. The complexity of this algorithm is elementary recursive and its proof of correctness is completely algebraic. In particular, the notion of connected components of semialgebraic sets is not used.

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@article{arxiv.1609.02879,
  title  = {Elementary recursive quantifier elimination based on Thom encoding and sign determination},
  author = {Daniel Perrucci and Marie-Françoise Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02879},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Final version, to appear in Annals of Pure and Applied Logic

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