(1) LIP6, Université Paris 6, 75015 Paris, France;(2) STIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Abstract:
Computing at least one point in each connected component of a real
algebraic set is a basic subroutine to decide emptiness of
semi-algebraic sets, which is a fundamental algorithmic problem in
effective real algebraic geometry. In this article we propose a new
algorithm for the former task, which avoids a hypothesis of
properness required in many of the previous methods. We show how
studying the set of non-properness of a linear projection
enables us to detect the connected components of a real algebraic
set without critical points for . Our algorithm is based on
this observation and its practical counterpoint, using the
triangular representation of algebraic varieties. Our experiments
show its efficiency on a family of examples.