Real Root Isolation of Regular Chains

We present an algorithm RealRootIsolate for isolating the real roots of a system of multivariate polynomials given by a zerodimensional squarefree regular chain. The output of the algorithm is guaranteed in the sense that all real roots are obtained and are described by boxes of arbitrary precision. Real roots are encoded with a hybrid representation, combining a symbolic object, namely a regular chain, and a numerical approximation given by intervals. Our isolation algorithm is a generalization, for regular chains, of the algorithm proposed by Collins and Akritas. We have implemented RealRootIsolate as a command of the module SemiAlgebraicSetTools of the RegularChains library in Maple. Benchmarks are reported.