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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 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

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

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) 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

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 extended abstract accompanies an invited talk at CASC 2024, which surveys recent developments in Real Quantifier Elimination (QE) and Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD). After introducing these concepts we will first consider…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Matthew England

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 (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

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

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

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 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 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

This paper presents a formally verified quantifier elimination (QE) algorithm for first-order real arithmetic by linear and quadratic virtual substitution (VS) in Isabelle/HOL. The Tarski-Seidenberg theorem established that the first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Matias Scharager , Katherine Cordwell , Stefan Mitsch , André Platzer

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

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

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

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
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