Tarski-Seidenberg theorem
Theorem (Tarski-Seidenberg).
The set of semialgebraic sets is closed under projection.
That is, if is a semialgebraic set, and if is the projection onto the first coordinates, then is also semialgebraic.
Łojasiewicz generalized this theorem further. For this we need a bit of notation.
Let .Suppose is any ring of real valued functions on.Define to be the smallestset of subsets of , which contain the sets for all ,and is closed under finite union, finite intersection and complement
.Let denote the ring of polynomials in with coefficients in .
Theorem (Tarski-Seidenberg-Łojasiewicz).
Suppose that ,is such that .Then the projection of onto the first variablesis in .
References
- 1 Edward Bierstone and Pierre D. Milman, Semianalytic and subanalyticsets, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. (1988), no. 67, 5–42.http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=89k:32011MR 89k:32011