Algorithms in real algebraic geometry: a survey

Publication date 23 February 2018

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1534

algorithms Betti numbers complexity quantifier elimination roadmaps semi-algebraic sets

Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Topology of real algebraic varieties (14P25) Computational aspects of higher-dimensional varieties (14Q15) Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30)

Abstract: 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 computing topological invariants of semi-algebraic sets. We emphasize throughout the complexity aspects of these algorithms and also discuss the computational hardness of the underlying problems. We also describe some recent results linking the computational hardness of decision problems in the first order theory of the reals, with that of computing certain topological invariants of semi-algebraic sets. Even though we mostly concentrate on exact algorithms, we also discuss some numerical approaches involving semi-definite programming that have gained popularity in recent times.

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