Title
On the Topology and Isotopic Meshing of Plane Algebraic Curves
Abstract
This paper presents a symbolic algorithm to compute the topology of a plane curve. This is a full version of the authors' CASC15 paper. The algorithm mainly involves resultant computations and real root isolation for univariate polynomials. Compared to other symbolic methods based on elimination techniques, the novelty of the proposed method is that the authors use a technique of interval polynomials to solve the system $$\left\{ {f(\alpha ,y),\tfrac{{\partial f}}{{\partial y}}(\alpha ,y)} \right\}$$ and simultaneously obtain numerous simple roots of f(α, y) = 0 on the α fiber. This significantly improves the efficiency of the lifting step because the authors are no longer required to compute the simple roots of f(α, y) = 0. After the topology is computed, a revised Newton's method is presented to compute an isotopic meshing of the plane algebraic curve. Though the approximation method is numerical, the authors can ensure that the proposed method is a certified one, and the meshing is topologically correct. Several nontrivial examples confirm that the proposed algorithm performs well.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s11424-020-8262-5
Journal of Systems Science and Complexity
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Interval polynomial, isotopic meshing, plane curve, topology
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1009-6124
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Jin100.34
Jin-San Cheng215612.49