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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

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

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

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 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

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is a key tool for problems in real algebraic geometry and beyond. When using CAD there is often a choice over the variable ordering to use, with some problems infeasible in one ordering but simple…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-02-12 Zongyan Huang , Matthew England , David Wilson , James H. Davenport , Lawrence C. Paulson

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

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) 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

We discuss issues of problem formulation for algorithms in real algebraic geometry, focussing on quantifier elimination by cylindrical algebraic decomposition. We recall how the variable ordering used can have a profound effect on both…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Matthew England

When using cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) to solve a problem with respect to a set of polynomials, it is likely not the signs of those polynomials that are of paramount importance but rather the truth values of certain quantifier…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-02-23 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

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

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

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Matthew England

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

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition(CAD) is a key tool in computational algebraic geometry, particularly for quantifier elimination over real-closed fields. When using CAD, there is often a choice for the ordering placed on the variables.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Zongyan Huang , Matthew England , David Wilson , James H. Davenport , Lawrence C. Paulson , James Bridge

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) is a key proof technique for formal verification of cyber-physical systems. CAD is computationally expensive, with worst-case doubly-exponential complexity. Selecting an optimal variable ordering is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 John Hester , Briland Hitaj , Grant Passmore , Sam Owre , Natarajan Shankar , Eric Yeh

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) is an important tool within computational real algebraic geometry, capable of solving many problems for polynomial systems over the reals. It has long been studied by the Symbolic Computation…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Alexander Imani Cowen-Rivers , Matthew England

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
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