Computing the topology of a plane or space hyperelliptic curve (Q2174086)

The authors present some algorithms to compute the topology of \(2D\) and \(3D\) hyperelliptic curves. They use that \(2D\) and \(3D\) hyperelliptic curves can be seen as the image of a planar curve (the Weierstrass form of the curve), whose topology is easy to compute, under a birational mapping of the plane or the space. A Maple implementation of the algorithms is provided, and several examples are developed. In addition, some discussions on complexity and certification issues are presented.