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Cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is an important tool for the study of real algebraic geometry with many applications both within mathematics and elsewhere. It is known to have doubly exponential complexity in the number of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Russell Bradford , James H. Davenport , Matthew England , David Wilson

We present a divide-and-conquer version of the Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) algorithm. The algorithm represents the input as a Boolean combination of subformulas, computes cylindrical algebraic decompositions of solution sets…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Adam Strzebonski

A Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) is a decomposition of R^n into a finite collection of semialgebraic cells. A CAD satisfies the "frontier condition" if, for every cell C, there is a collection of cells of the decomposition whose…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Hollie Baker

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) has long been one of the most important algorithms within Symbolic Computation, as a tool to perform quantifier elimination in first order logic over the reals. More recently it is finding…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Matthew England , Russell Bradford , James H. Davenport

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) was the first practical means for doing real quantifier elimination (QE), and is still a major method, with many improvements since Collins' original method. Nevertheless, its complexity is…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-12-08 James H. Davenport , Zak P. Tonks , Ali K. Uncu

The Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) method is currently the only complete algorithm used in practice for solving real-algebraic problems. To ameliorate its doubly-exponential complexity, different exploration-guided adaptations…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jasper Nalbach , Erika Ábrahám

Symbolic computation, powered by modern computer algebra systems, has important applications in mathematical reasoning through exact deep computations. The efficiency of symbolic computation is largely constrained by such deep computations…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Rui-Juan Jing , Yuegang Zhao , Changbo Chen

Cylindrical algebraic decompositions (CADs) are a key tool in real algebraic geometry, used primarily for eliminating quantifiers over the reals and studying semi-algebraic sets. In this paper we introduce cylindrical algebraic…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-06-27 D. J. Wilson , R. J. Bradford , J. H. Davenport , M. England

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) is a key tool in computational algebraic geometry, best known as a procedure to enable Quantifier Elimination over real-closed fields. However, it has a worst case complexity doubly exponential in…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Zongyan Huang , Matthew England , David Wilson , James H. Davenport , Lawrence C. Paulson

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is a key tool for solving problems in real algebraic geometry and beyond. In recent years a new approach has been developed, where regular chains technology is used to first build a decomposition in…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-08-28 Matthew England , Russell Bradford , James H. Davenport , David Wilson

We present an algorithm which computes a cylindrical algebraic decomposition of a semialgebraic set using projection sets computed for each cell separately. Such local projection sets can be significantly smaller than the global projection…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Adam Strzebonski

Cylindrical algebraic decompositions (CADs) are a key tool for solving problems in real algebraic geometry and beyond. We recently presented a new CAD algorithm combining two advances: truth-table invariance, making the CAD invariant with…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Matthew England , Russell Bradford , Changbo Chen , James H. Davenport , Marc Moreno Maza , David Wilson

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is an important tool for the investigation of semi-algebraic sets, with applications in algebraic geometry and beyond. We have previously reported on an implementation of CAD in Maple which offers…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Matthew England , David Wilson

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) is a key tool in computational algebraic geometry, particularly for quantifier elimination over real-closed fields. However, it can be expensive, with worst case complexity doubly exponential in the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Zongyan Huang , Matthew England , James H. Davenport , Lawrence C. Paulson

Gr\"obner Bases and Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition are generally thought of as two, rather different, methods of looking at systems of equations and, in the case of Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition, inequalities. However, even for a…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2012-07-30 David J. Wilson , Russell J. Bradford , James H. Davenport

CylindricalAlgebraicDecomposition.m2 is the first implementation of Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) in Macaulay2. CAD decomposes space into 'cells' where input polynomials are sign-invariant. This package computes an Open CAD…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Corin Lee , Tereso del Río , Hamid Rahkooy

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is an important tool, both for quantifier elimination over the reals and a range of other applications. Traditionally, a CAD is built through a process of projection and lifting to move the problem…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-08-28 Matthew England , David Wilson , Russell Bradford , James H. Davenport

This article makes the key observation that when using cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) to solve a problem with respect to a set of polynomials, it is not always the signs of those polynomials that are of paramount importance but…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Russell Bradford , James H. Davenport , Matthew England , Scott McCallum , David Wilson

A new algorithm to compute cylindrical algebraic decompositions (CADs) is presented, building on two recent advances. Firstly, the output is truth table invariant (a TTICAD) meaning given formulae have constant truth value on each cell of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-09-04 R. Bradford , C. Chen , J. H. Davenport , M. England , M. Moreno Maza , D. Wilson

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is an important tool for working with polynomial systems, particularly quantifier elimination. However, it has complexity doubly exponential in the number of variables. The base algorithm can be…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Matthew England , James H. Davenport
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