A Separation Bound for Real Algebraic Expressions

  • Authors:
  • Christoph Burnikel;Stefan Funke;Kurt Mehlhorn;Stefan Schirra;Susanne Schmitt

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ESA '01 Proceedings of the 9th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Real algebraic expressions are expressions whose leaves are integers and whose internal nodes are additions, subtractions, multiplications, divisions, k- th root operations for integral k, and taking roots of polynomials whose coefficients are given by the values of subexpressions.We consider the sign computation of real algebraic expressions, a task vital for the implementation of geometric algorithms. We prove a new separation bound for real algebraic expressions and compare it analytically and experimentally with previous bounds. The bound is used in the sign test of the number type leda_real.