Piecewise algebraic curve

  • Authors:
  • Ren-Hong Wang;Yi-Sheng Lai

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China;Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Selected papers of the international symposium on applied mathematics, August 2000, Dalian, China
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A piecewise algebraic curve is defined by a bivariate spline function. Using the techniques of the B-net form of bivariate splines function, discriminant sequence of polynomial (cf. Yang Lu et al. (Sci. China Ser. E 39(6) (1996) 628) and Yang Lu et al. (Nonlinear Algebraic Equation System and Automated Theorem Proving, Shanghai Scientific and Technological Education Publishing House, Shanghai, 1996)) and the number of sign changes in the sequence of coefficients of the highest degree terms of sturm sequence, we determine the number of real intersection points of two piecewise algebraic curves whose common points are finite. A lower bound of the number of real intersection points is given in terms of the method of rotation degree of vector field.