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Computing the singularities of rational space curves

  • Xiaoran Shi
  • , Falai Chen*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Science and Technology of China

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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the singularities of rational space curves. Two methods are provided to compute the singularities of arbitrary degree curves. These methods are a generalization of the paper (Chen, Wang and Liu. Computing singular points of plane rational curves. Journal of Symbolic Computation 43, 92-117, 2008), which are based on the μbasis of the rational space curve and on random technique. The μ-basis induces a matrix M which contains all the information about the singularities including the parameter values corresponding to the singularities, multiplicities and infinitely near singularities. These information can be obtained by computing the Smith form of the matrix M. We compare our methods with previous approaches such as generalized resultants, and provide some examples to illustrate the effectiveness of our methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ISSAC 2010
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages171-178
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781450301503
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ISSAC 2010 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 25 Jul 201028 Jul 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ISSAC

Conference

Conference2010 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ISSAC 2010
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period25/07/1028/07/10

Keywords

  • Rational space curve
  • Singularities
  • μ-basis

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