Computing roadmaps of general semi-algebraic sets

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0758.00016.] The roadmaps were invented by the author [``The complexity of robot motion planning. (Thesis; Cambridge 1988)] for the purpose of finding paths in semi-algebraic sets. The original construction proposed by the author worked under the hypothesis that the semi-algebraic set was compact, and defined by polynomials in ``general position. The present paper explains how to retreat from the general case to this hypothesis, introducing several infinitesimals for perturbations. The original roadmap algorithm is called for this perturbated set; it is not precisely stated what information this gives about the nonperturbated set. The complexity of the (deterministic) algorithm, in terms of the dimension of ambient space \(n\), the number of polynomials \(k\) and the maximum degree \(d\), is \((k^ n\log^ 2k)d^{O(n^ 4)}\). The author insists on the fact that the combinatorial complexity (dependance upon \(k)\) is nearly optimal.











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