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When is a Distribution of Signs Locally Completable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

F. Acquistapace
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Université di Pisa Via F. Buonarroti 2 1-56127 Pisa Italy fax number: (39) 50 599524 e-mail: , [email protected]: , [email protected]
F. Broglia
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Université di Pisa Via F. Buonarroti 2 1-56127 Pisa Italy fax number: (39) 50 599524 e-mail: , [email protected]: , [email protected]
E. Fortuna
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Université di Pisa Via F. Buonarroti 2 1-56127 Pisa Italy fax number: (39) 50 599524 e-mail: , [email protected]: , [email protected]
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Abstract

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Let V be an irreducible nonsingular algebraic surface, YV be an algebraic curve and P a point of Y. Suppose a sign distribution is given locally in a neighbourhood of P on some connected components of VY. We give an algorithmic criterion to decide whether this sign distribution is induced by a regular function or not. As an application, this criterion enables one to decide whether two semialgebraic sets can be locally separated or not.

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Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1994

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