
The authors present a quantifier elimination algorithm for some first-order formulas involving the trigonometric functions sine and cosine based on the cylindrical algebraic decomposition of semi-algebraic sets due to Collin (see \textit{G. E. Collins}, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 33, 134-183 (1975; Zbl 0318.02051)). There are two well-known methods to extend the algebraic elimination procedures to formulas containing trigonometric functions: either introducing new variables for \(s_i= \sin(x_i)\) and \(c_i= \cos(x_i)\) and adding the conditions \(s^2_i+ c^2_i= 1\) or expressing all trigonometric functions in \(\tan({x_i\over 2})\) and introducing new variables \(t_i= \tan({x_i\over 2})\). The authors use this second method as it introduces fewer new variables. To deal algorithmically with the possible indefinitions of the tangent, they give a cylindrical trigonometric decomposition of the space, which is not algebraic anymore and makes the complexity of their algorithm lower than the known complexities of algorithms solving the same task.
cylindrical trigonometric decomposition, Computational Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory, quantifier elimination algorithm, Computational aspects of field theory and polynomials, Symbolic computation and algebraic computation
cylindrical trigonometric decomposition, Computational Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory, quantifier elimination algorithm, Computational aspects of field theory and polynomials, Symbolic computation and algebraic computation
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