Polar varieties, real equation solving, and data structures: the hypersurface case

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DOI10.1006/JCOM.1997.0432zbMATH Open0872.68066arXivalg-geom/9609004OpenAlexW2134386365MaRDI QIDQ1361872FDOQ1361872

Marc Giusti, Bernd Bank, Joos Heintz, Guy Merlin Mbakop

Publication date: 28 July 1997

Published in: Journal of Complexity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we apply for the first time a new method for multivariate equation solving which was developed in cite{gh1}, cite{gh2}, cite{gh3} for complex root determination to the {em real} case. Our main result concerns the problem of finding at least one representative point for each connected component of a real compact and smooth hypersurface. The basic algorithm of cite{gh1}, cite{gh2}, cite{gh3} yields a new method for symbolically solving zero-dimensional polynomial equation systems over the complex numbers. One feature of central importance of this algorithm is the use of a problem--adapted data type represented by the data structures arithmetic network and straight-line program (arithmetic circuit). The algorithm finds the complex solutions of any affine zero-dimensional equation system in non-uniform sequential time that is {em polynomial} in the length of the input (given in straight--line program representation) and an adequately defined {em geometric degree of the equation system}. Replacing the notion of geometric degree of the given polynomial equation system by a suitably defined {em real (or complex) degree} of certain polar varieties associated to the input equation of the real hypersurface under consideration, we are able to find for each connected component of the hypersurface a representative point (this point will be given in a suitable encoding). The input equation is supposed to be given by a straight-line program and the (sequential time) complexity of the algorithm is polynomial in the input length and the degree of the polar varieties mentioned above.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9609004




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