Abstract
In this paper, we address the problem of determining a real finite set of z -values where the topology type of the level curves of a (maybe singular) algebraic surface may change. We use as a fundamental and crucial tool McCallum’s theorem on analytic delineability of polynomials (see [McCallum, S., 1998. An improved projection operation for cylindrical algebraic decomposition. In: Caviness, B.F., Johnson, J.R. (Eds.), Quantifier Elimination and Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition. Springer Verlag, pp. 242–268]). Our results allow to algorithmically compute this finite set by analyzing the real roots of a univariate polynomial; namely, the double discriminant of the implicit equation of the surface. As a consequence, an application to offsets is shown.
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