Numerically computing real points on algebraic sets

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Abstract: Given a polynomial system f, a fundamental question is to determine if f has real roots. Many algorithms involving the use of infinitesimal deformations have been proposed to answer this question. In this article, we transform an approach of Rouillier, Roy, and Safey El Din, which is based on a classical optimization approach of Seidenberg, to develop a homotopy based approach for computing at least one point on each connected component of a real algebraic set. Examples are presented demonstrating the effectiveness of this parallelizable homotopy based approach.


Infinitesimal deformations are commonly used in real algebraic geometric algorithms. The author uses homotopy continuation to model the deformation, and presents an algorithm for computing a finite set of real roots of a polynomial system containing a point on each connected component. The algorithm computes a finite superset of the isolated roots over the real numbers. Some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the computational steps of the algorithm.



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