Counting Real Connected Components of Trinomial Curve Intersections and m-Nomial Hypersurfaces

Discrete and Computational Geometry

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 379-414

  Li, Tien Yien ^a   Maurice Rojas, J ^b   Wang, Xiaoshen ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Mathematics Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0142054849     PISSN: 01795376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00454-003-2834-8     Document Type: Article

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