An Incremental Algorithm for Computing Cylindrical Algebraic Decompositions

In this paper, we propose an incremental algorithm for computing cylindrical algebraic decompositions. The algorithm consists of two parts: computing a complex cylindrical tree and refining this complex tree into a cylindrical tree in real space. The incrementality comes from the first part of the algorithm, where a complex cylindrical tree is constructed by refining a previous complex cylindrical tree with a polynomial constraint. We have implemented our algorithm in Maple. The experimentation shows that the proposed algorithm outperforms existing ones for many examples taken from the literature

An Algorithm for Computing the Limit Points of the Quasi-component of a Regular Chain

For a regular chain $R$, we propose an algorithm which computes the (non-trivial) limit points of the quasi-component of $R$, that is, the set $\bar{W(R)} \setminus W(R)$. Our procedure relies on Puiseux series expansions and does not require to compute a system of generators of the saturated ideal of $R$. We focus on the case where this saturated ideal has dimension one and we discuss extensions of this work in higher dimensions. We provide experimental results illustrating the benefits of our algorithms

Computing differential characteristic sets by change of ordering

submitted to the Journal of Symbolic ComputationWe describe an algorithm for converting a characteristic set of a prime differential ideal from one ranking into another. This algorithm was implemented in many different languages and has been applied within various software and projects. It permitted to solve formerly unsolved problems

Well known theorems on triangular systems and the D5 principle

International audienceThe theorems that we present in this paper are very important to prove the correctness of triangular decomposition algorithms. The most important of them are not new but their proofs are. We illustrate how they articulate with the D5 principle