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316. Riccardo Ghiloni, Alessandro Tancredi:
Algebraic models of symmetric Nash sets.

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Submission: 2012, August 28.

Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to prove the existence of algebraic models for Nash sets having suitable symmetries. Given a Nash set \$M \subset \mathbb{R}^n\$, we say that \$M\$ is specular if it is symmetric wrt an affine subspace \$L\$ of \$\mathbb{R}^n\$ and \$M \cap L=\emptyset\$. If \$M\$ is symmetric wrt a point of \$\mathbb{R}^n\$, we call \$M\$ centrally symmetric. We prove that every specular compact Nash set is Nash isomorphic to a specular real algebraic set and every specular noncompact Nash set is semialgebraically homeomorphic to a specular real algebraic set. The same is true replacing ``specular'' with ``centrally symmetric'', provided the Nash set we consider is equal to the union of connected components of a real algebraic set. Less accurate results hold when such a union is symmetric wrt a plane of positive dimension and it intersects that plane. The algebraic models for symmetric Nash sets \$M\$ we construct are symmetric. If the local semialgebraic dimension of \$M\$ is constant and positive, then we are able to prove that the set of birationally nonisomorphic symmetric algebraic models for \$M\$ has the power of continuum .

Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 14P05, 14P20, 14P25.

Keywords and Phrases: Algebraic models of Nash sets, symmetric Nash sets, connected components of real algebraic sets.

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