Title
Surface parametrisation without diagonalisation
Abstract
For rationally flbred surfaces over Q and also over R, an ef- fective algorithm exists that decides if such a surface has a proper parametrisation. This algorithm uses a diagonalised form of the surface equation. We show, using recent algo- rithms for quadratic forms, that diagonalisation is not neces- sary. The resulting algorithm only uses operations on poly- nomials (as opposed to rational functions), which keeps all occurring degrees small and avoids spurious factors in the discriminant.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1145768.1145823
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
parametrisation,quadratic forms,surface equation,resulting algorithm,avoids spurious factor,surface parametrisation,rational surfaces,diagonalised form,quadratic form,fibred surface,effective algorithm,proper parametrisation,rational function,recent algorithm
Combinatorics,Parametrization,Polynomial,Discriminant,Quadratic form,Fibered knot,Rational function,Spurious relationship,Mathematics
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-276-3
1
0.42
References 
Authors
5
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christiaan Van De Woestijne1132.33