Mathematics of Computation

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Effective topological degree computation based on interval arithmetic
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by Peter Franek and Stefan Ratschan;
Math. Comp. 84 (2015), 1265-1290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-2014-02877-9
Published electronically: September 17, 2014

Abstract:

We describe a new algorithm for calculating the topological degree $\mathrm {deg }(f,B,0)$ where $B\subseteq \mathbb {R}^n$ is a product of closed real intervals and $f:B\to \mathbb {R}^n$ is a real-valued continuous function given in the form of arithmetical expressions. The algorithm cleanly separates numerical from combinatorial computation. Based on this, the numerical part provably computes only the information that is strictly necessary for the following combinatorial part, and the combinatorial part may optimize its computation based on the numerical information computed before. We present computational experiments based on an implementation of the algorithm. In contrast to previous work, the algorithm does not assume knowledge of a Lipschitz constant of the function $f$, and works for arbitrary continuous functions for which some notion of interval arithmetic can be defined.
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Bibliographic Information
  • Peter Franek
  • Affiliation: Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic — and — Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University
  • Email: franek@cs.cas.cz, peter.franek@fit.cvut.cz
  • Stefan Ratschan
  • Affiliation: Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • Email: stefan.ratschan@cs.cas.cz
  • Received by editor(s): July 26, 2012
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 18, 2013, and September 3, 2013
  • Published electronically: September 17, 2014
  • Additional Notes: This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) grant number P202/12/J060 with institutional support RVO:67985807
  • © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 84 (2015), 1265-1290
  • MSC (2010): Primary 55-04, 68-04; Secondary 55P15
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-2014-02877-9
  • MathSciNet review: 3315508