On the Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture

DOI10.1216/RMJ-1984-14-4-983MaRDI QIDQ5902937zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Louis Mahé

Publication date 1984

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1216/rmj-1984-14-4-983

zbMATH Keywords

isolated pointspiecewise polynomialsPierce-Birkhoff conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real algebra (13J30) Semialgebraic sets and related spaces (14P10) Local analytic geometry (32B99)

Review text

The conjecture in question is that all continuous piecewise polynomial functions \(h\) on \(\mathbb R^ n\) (in finitely many pieces) are generated from polynomial functions by lattice operations. The author sketches a proof for the plane. It reduces to certain constructions around the common boundaries of pairs of the open sets on which \(h\) is equal to only one of the piecing polynomials. For any \(n\), common boundaries which are empty or everywhere \((n-1)\)-dimensional are taken care of; so for \(n=2\), only isolated points remain to be treated.

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