Computing Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition via Triangular Decomposition

Abstract

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition is one of the most important tools for computing with semi-algebraic sets, while triangular decomposition is among the most important approaches for manipulating constructible sets. In this paper, for an arbitrary finite set $F \subset {\R}[y_1, ..., y_n]$ we apply comprehensive triangular decomposition in order to obtain an $F$-invariant cylindrical decomposition of the $n$-dimensional complex space, from which we extract an $F$-invariant cylindrical algebraic decomposition of the $n$-dimensional real space. We report on an implementation of this new approach for constructing cylindrical algebraic decompositions.