Automatic Deduction in Dynamic Geometry using Sage

Details Automatic Deduction in Dynamic Geometry using Sage Automatic Deduction in Dynamic Geometry using Sage

2012-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/1202.4830v1

EPTCS 79, 2012, pp. 49-62

Computer Science

Mathematical Software

In Proceedings THedu'11, arXiv:1202.4535

Scientific paper

10.4204/EPTCS.79.3

We present a symbolic tool that provides robust algebraic methods to handle automatic deduction tasks for a dynamic geometry construction. The main prototype has been developed as two different worksheets for the open source computer algebra system Sage, corresponding to two different ways of coding a geometric construction. In one worksheet, diagrams constructed with the open source dynamic geometry system GeoGebra are accepted. In this worksheet, Groebner bases are used to either compute the equation of a geometric locus in the case of a locus construction or to determine the truth of a general geometric statement included in the GeoGebra construction as a boolean variable. In the second worksheet, locus constructions coded using the common file format for dynamic geometry developed by the Intergeo project are accepted for computation. The prototype and several examples are provided for testing. Moreover, a third Sage worksheet is presented in which a novel algorithm to eliminate extraneous parts in symbolically computed loci has been implemented. The algorithm, based on a recent work on the Groebner cover of parametric systems, identifies degenerate components and extraneous adherence points in loci, both natural byproducts of general polynomial algebraic methods. Detailed examples are discussed.

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