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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…

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

Canonical Polyadic Decomposition (CPD) of a third-order tensor is decomposition in a minimal number of rank-$1$ tensors. We call an algorithm algebraic if it is guaranteed to find the decomposition when it is exact and if it only relies on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Ignat Domanov , Lieven De Lathauwer

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

Vertical decomposition is a widely used general technique for decomposing the cells of arrangements of semi-algebraic sets in ${{\mathbb R}}^d$ into constant-complexity subcells. In this paper, we settle in the affirmative a few…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Esther Ezra , Micha Sharir

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 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 present a new algorithm for determining the satisfiability of conjunctions of non-linear polynomial constraints over the reals, which can be used as a theory solver for satisfiability modulo theory (SMT) solving for non-linear real…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Erika Ábrahám , James H. Davenport , Matthew England , Gereon Kremer

A new projection operator based on cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is proposed. The new operator computes the intersection of projection factor sets produced by different CAD projection orders. In other words, it computes the gcd…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Jingjun Han , Liyun Dai , Bican Xia

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) 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

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) 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

We present a new certified and complete algorithm to compute arrangements of real planar algebraic curves. Our algorithm provides a geometric-topological analysis of the decomposition of the plane induced by a finite number of algebraic…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-03-25 Eric Berberich , Pavel Emeliyanenko , Alexander Kobel , Michael Sagraloff