Approximate parametrization of plane algebraic curves by linear systems of curves

  • Authors:
  • Sonia Pérez-Díaz;J. Rafael Sendra;Sonia L. Rueda;Juana Sendra

  • Affiliations:
  • Dpto. de Matemáticas, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871 Madrid, Spain;Dpto. de Matemáticas, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28871 Madrid, Spain;Dpto. de Matemática Aplicada, E.T.S. Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain;Dpto. de Matemática Aplicada a la I.T. de Telecomunicación, E.U.I.T. Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, E-28031 Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

It is well known that an irreducible algebraic curve is rational (i.e. parametric) if and only if its genus is zero. In this paper, given a tolerance @e0 and an @e-irreducible algebraic affine plane curve C of proper degree d, we introduce the notion of @e-rationality, and we provide an algorithm to parametrize approximately affine @e-rational plane curves by means of linear systems of (d-2)-degree curves. The algorithm outputs a rational parametrization of a rational curve C@? of degree d which has the same points at infinity as C. Moreover, although we do not provide a theoretical analysis, our empirical analysis shows that C@? and C are close in practice.