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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 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 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

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 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

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

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

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 consider cylindrical algebraic decompositions (CADs) as a tool for representing semi-algebraic subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this framework, a CAD $\mathscr{C}$ is adapted to a given set $S$ if $S$ is a union of cells of $\mathscr{C}$.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lucas Michel , Pierre Mathonet , Naïm Zénaïdi

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

We consider cylindrical algebraic decompositions (CADs) as a tool for representing semi-algebraic subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$. In this framework, a CAD $\mathscr{C}$ is adapted to a given set $S$ if $S$ is a union of cells of $\mathscr{C}$.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lucas Michel , Pierre Mathonet , Naïm Zénaïdi

Cylindrical Algebraic Decompositions (CADs) endowed with additional topological properties have found applications beyond their original logical setting, including algorithmic optimizations in CAD construction, robot motion planning, and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Lucas Michel

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

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

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 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 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

We consider cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) and the key concept of delineability which underpins CAD theory. We introduce the novel concept of projective delineability which is easier to guarantee computationally. We prove results…

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

In this paper we introduce the notion of an Open Non-uniform Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (NuCAD), and present an efficient model-based algorithm for constructing an Open NuCAD from an input formula. A NuCAD is a generalization of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Christopher W. Brown
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