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Preprint Number 1064
1064. Scott McCallum, Adam Parusinski, Laurentiu Paunescu Validity proof of Lazard's method for CAD construction E-mail: Submission date: 1st July 2016 Abstract: In 1994 Lazard proposed an improved method for cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD). The method comprised a simplified projection operation together with a generalized cell lifting (that is, stack construction) technique. For the proof of the method's validity Lazard introduced a new notion of valuation of a multivariate polynomial at a point. However a gap in one of the key supporting results for his proof was subsequently noticed. In the present paper we provide a complete validity proof of Lazard's method. Our proof is based on the classical parametrized version of Puiseux's theorem and basic properties of Lazard's valuation. This result is significant because Lazard's method can be applied to any finite family of polynomials, without any assumption on the system of coordinates. It therefore has wider applicability and may be more efficient than other projection and lifting schemes for CAD. Mathematics Subject Classification: 14P10, 68W30 Keywords and phrases: |
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