Computing the topology of real algebraic surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Elisabetta Fortuna;Patrizia Gianni;Paola Parenti;Carlo Traverso

  • Affiliations:
  • Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy;Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy;Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy;Università di Pisa, via Buonarroti 2, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present constructive algorithms to determine the topological type of a non-singular real algebraic projective surface S in the real projective space; we address this question when there exists a line in RP3 not intersecting the surface. Starting from a polynomial equation with rational coefficients for S, our algorithm computes the homology of the various connected components of the surface. We reconstruct the homology in a finite number of steps, using as a basic tool Morse theory. The entire procedure has been implemented in Axiom.