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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

We propose new algorithms for computing triangular decompositions of polynomial systems incrementally. With respect to previous works, our improvements are based on a {\em weakened} notion of a polynomial GCD modulo a regular chain, which…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-04-06 Changbo Chen , Marc Moreno Maza

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

This paper builds and extends on the authors' previous work related to the algorithmic tool, Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD), and one of its core applications, Real Quantifier Elimination (QE). These topics are at the heart of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-11-20 James H. Davenport , Matthew England , Scott McCallum , Ali K. Uncu

McCallum-style Cylindrical Algebra Decomposition (CAD) is a major improvement on the original Collins version, and has had many subsequent advances, notably for total or partial equational constraints. But it suffers from a problem with…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-12-08 James H. Davenport , Akshar S. Nair , Gregory K. Sankaran , Ali K. Uncu

It is well known that the variable ordering can be critical to the efficiency or even tractability of the cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) algorithm. We propose new heuristics inspired by complexity analysis of CAD to choose the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Tereso del Río , Matthew England

The purpose of this paper is to explore the question "to what extent could we produce formal, machine-verifiable, proofs in real algebraic geometry?" The question has been asked before but as yet the leading algorithms for answering such…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Erika {Á}brahám , James Davenport , Matthew England , Gereon Kremer , Zak Tonks

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

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

This paper presents two enhancements to cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) based quantifier elimination (QE) for cases in which multiple equational constraints are present in the given input formula $\phi^*$. The first enhancement…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-04-28 James H. Davenport , Matthew England , Scott McCallum

Invariants withstand transformations and, therefore, represent the essence of objects or phenomena. In mathematics, transformations often constitute a group action. Since the 19th century, studying the structure of various types of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Irina A. Kogan

Triangular decomposition is a classic, widely used and well-developed way to represent algebraic varieties with many applications. In particular, there exist sharp degree bounds for a single triangular set in terms of intrinsic data of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Gleb Pogudin , Agnes Szanto

This paper provides a theoretical and numerical investigation of a penalty decomposition scheme for the solution of optimization problems with geometric constraints. In particular, we consider some situations where parts of the constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Matteo Lapucci , Christian Kanzow

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

We consider the problem of decomposing a multivariate polynomial as the difference of two convex polynomials. We introduce algebraic techniques which reduce this task to linear, second order cone, and semidefinite programming. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

We survey both old and new developments in the theory of algorithms in real algebraic geometry -- starting from effective quantifier elimination in the first order theory of reals due to Tarski and Seidenberg, to more recent algorithms for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-05 Saugata Basu

Addressing irregular cutting and packing (C&P) optimization problems poses two distinct challenges: the geometric challenge of determining whether or not an item can be placed feasibly at a certain position, and the optimization challenge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jeroen Gardeyn , Greet Vanden Berghe , Tony Wauters

We give a survey of algorithms for computing topological invariants of semi-algebraic sets with special emphasis on the more recent developments in designing algorithms for computing the Betti numbers of semi-algebraic sets. Aside from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-09-17 Saugata Basu

Many complex chemical problems encoded in terms of physics-based models become computationally intractable for traditional numerical approaches due to their unfavourable scaling with increasing molecular size. Tensor decomposition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Nina Glaser , Markus Reiher

In this paper, we consider systems of algebraic and non-linear partial differential equations and inequations. We decompose these systems into so-called simple subsystems and thereby partition the set of solutions. For algebraic systems,…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2012-04-01 Thomas Bächler , Vladimir Gerdt , Markus Lange-Hegermann , Daniel Robertz