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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

We investigate the distribution of cells by dimension in cylindrical algebraic decompositions (CADs). We find that they follow a standard distribution which seems largely independent of the underlying problem or CAD algorithm used. Rather,…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-02-13 David Wilson , Matthew England , Russell Bradford , James H. Davenport

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) is an important tool within computational real algebraic geometry, capable of solving many problems to do with polynomial systems over the reals, but known to have worst-case computational…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Alexander I. Cowen-Rivers , Matthew England

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is a core algorithm within Symbolic Computation, particularly for quantifier elimination over the reals and polynomial systems solving more generally. It is now finding increased application as a…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-12-22 James H. Davenport , Matthew England

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) algorithms typically produce a decomposition adapted to a finite family of semi-algebraic sets $\mathcal{F}$ (i.e. every member of $\mathcal{F}$ is a union of cells). Different algorithms may…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Lucas Michel

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is an important tool for the investigation of semi-algebraic sets. Originally introduced by Collins in the 1970s for use in quantifier elimination it has since found numerous applications within…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Matthew England

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 is a classical construction in real algebraic geometry. Although there are many algorithms to compute a cylindrical algebraic decomposition, their practical performance is still very limited. In this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Rizeng Chen

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

The cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is the only complete method used in practice for solving problems like quantifier elimination or SMT solving related to real algebra, despite its doubly exponential complexity. Recent…

The Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) algorithm is a comprehensive tool to perform quantifier elimination over real closed fields. CAD has doubly exponential running time, making it infeasible for practical purposes. We propose to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Hari Krishna Malladi , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition is one of the most important tools for computing with semi-algebraic sets, while triangular decomposition is among the most important approaches for manipulating constructible sets. In this paper, for an…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2009-03-31 Changbo Chen , Marc Moreno Maza , Bican Xia , Lu Yang

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

We present an algorithm for computation of cell adjacencies for well-based cylindrical algebraic decomposition. Cell adjacency information can be used to compute topological operations e.g. closure, boundary, connected components, and…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Adam Strzebonski

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

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

In this paper, we propose an incremental algorithm for computing cylindrical algebraic decompositions. The algorithm consists of two parts: computing a complex cylindrical tree and refining this complex tree into a cylindrical tree in real…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Changbo Chen , Marc Moreno Maza

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 decomposition (CAD) plays an important role in the field of real algebraic geometry and many other areas. As is well-known, the choice of variable ordering while computing CAD has a great effect on the time and memory…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Haokun Li , Bican Xia , Huiying Zhang , Tao Zheng

New methods for $D$-decomposition analysis are presented. They are based on topology of real algebraic varieties and computational real algebraic geometry. The estimate of number of root invariant regions for polynomial parametric families…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Oleg O. Vasil'ev