## Polar varieties, real equation solving, and data structures: the hypersurface case.(English)Zbl 0872.68066

Summary: We apply for the first time a new method for multivariate equation solving which was developed for complex root determination to the real case. Our main result concerns the problem of finding at least one representative point for each connected component of a real compact and smooth hypersurface. The basic algorithm yields a new method for symbolically solving zero-dimensional polynomial equation systems over the complex numbers. One feature of central importance of this algorithm is the use of a problem-adapted data type represented by the data structures arithmetic network and straight-line program (arithmetic circuit).
The algorithm finds the complex solutions of any affine zero-dimensional equation system in nonuniform sequential time that is polynomial in the length of the input (given in straight-line program representation) and an adequately defined geometric degree of the equation system. Replacing the notion of geometric degree of the given polynomial equation system by a suitably defined real (or complex) degree of certain polar varieties associated to the input equation of the real hypersurface under consideration, we are able to find for each connected component of the hypersurface a representative point (this point will be given in a suitable encoding). The input equation is supposed to be given by a straight-line program and the (sequential time) complexity of the algorithm is polynomial in the input length and the degree of the polar varieties mentioned above.

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 68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity

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