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Computation with Polynomial Equations and Inequalities arising in Combinatorial Optimization
The purpose of this note is to survey a methodology to solve systems of
polynomial equations and inequalities. The techniques we discuss use the
algebra of multivariate polynomials with coefficients over a field to create
large-scale linear algebra or semidefinite programming relaxations of many
kinds of feasibility or optimization questions. We are particularly interested
in problems arising in combinatorial optimization.Comment: 28 pages, survey pape
A fast branch-and-prune algorithm for the position analysis of spherical mechanisms
The final publication is available at link.springer.comDifferent branch-and-prune schemes can be found in the literature for numerically solving the position analysis of spherical mechanisms. For the prune operation, they all rely on the propagation of motion intervals. They differ in the way the problem is algebraically formulated. This paper exploits the fact that spherical kinematic loop equations can be formulated as sets of 3 multi-affine polynomials. Multi-affinity has an important impact on how the propagation of motion intervals can be performed because a multi-affine polynomial is uniquely determined by its values at the vertices of a closed hyperbox defined in its domain.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Convexity-Increasing Morphs of Planar Graphs
We study the problem of convexifying drawings of planar graphs. Given any
planar straight-line drawing of an internally 3-connected graph, we show how to
morph the drawing to one with strictly convex faces while maintaining planarity
at all times. Our morph is convexity-increasing, meaning that once an angle is
convex, it remains convex. We give an efficient algorithm that constructs such
a morph as a composition of a linear number of steps where each step either
moves vertices along horizontal lines or moves vertices along vertical lines.
Moreover, we show that a linear number of steps is worst-case optimal.
To obtain our result, we use a well-known technique by Hong and Nagamochi for
finding redrawings with convex faces while preserving y-coordinates. Using a
variant of Tutte's graph drawing algorithm, we obtain a new proof of Hong and
Nagamochi's result which comes with a better running time. This is of
independent interest, as Hong and Nagamochi's technique serves as a building
block in existing morphing algorithms.Comment: Preliminary version in Proc. WG 201
Sparse Gr\"obner Bases: the Unmixed Case
Toric (or sparse) elimination theory is a framework developped during the
last decades to exploit monomial structures in systems of Laurent polynomials.
Roughly speaking, this amounts to computing in a \emph{semigroup algebra},
\emph{i.e.} an algebra generated by a subset of Laurent monomials. In order to
solve symbolically sparse systems, we introduce \emph{sparse Gr\"obner bases},
an analog of classical Gr\"obner bases for semigroup algebras, and we propose
sparse variants of the and FGLM algorithms to compute them. Our prototype
"proof-of-concept" implementation shows large speed-ups (more than 100 for some
examples) compared to optimized (classical) Gr\"obner bases software. Moreover,
in the case where the generating subset of monomials corresponds to the points
with integer coordinates in a normal lattice polytope and under regularity assumptions, we prove complexity bounds which depend
on the combinatorial properties of . These bounds yield new
estimates on the complexity of solving -dim systems where all polynomials
share the same Newton polytope (\emph{unmixed case}). For instance, we
generalize the bound on the maximal degree in a Gr\"obner
basis of a -dim. bilinear system with blocks of variables of sizes
to the multilinear case: . We also propose
a variant of Fr\"oberg's conjecture which allows us to estimate the complexity
of solving overdetermined sparse systems.Comment: 20 pages, Corollary 6.1 has been corrected, ISSAC 2014, Kobe : Japan
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