We discuss some conditions which guarantee that the Kuratowski limit of a sequence of analytic sets is a Nash set.

Let V be a real algebraic manifold of positive dimension. The aim of this paper is to show that, for every integer b (arbitrarily large), there exists a trivial Nash family $={V_y}_{y\in R^b}$ of real algebraic manifolds such that V₀ = V, is an algebraic family of real algebraic manifolds over $y\in R^b\setminus 0$ (possibly singular over y = 0) and is perfectly parametrized by $R^b$ in the sense that $V_y$ is birationally nonisomorphic to $V_z$ for every $y,z\in R^b$ with y ≠ z. A similar result continues to hold if V is a singular real algebraic set.

We introduce a notion of generic real algebraic variety and we study the space of morphisms into these varieties. Let $Z$ be a real algebraic variety. We say that $Z$ is generic if there exist a finite family ${\left\{D_i\right\}}_{i=1}^n$ of irreducible real algebraic curves with genus $\ge 2$ and a biregular embedding of $Z$ into the product variety ${\prod }_{i=1}^n{D}_i$. A bijective map $\varphi :{\tilde{Z}}^{\phantom{1}}\to Z$ from a real algebraic variety $\tilde{Z}$ to $Z$ is called weak change of the algebraic structure of $Z$ if it is regular and its inverse is a Nash map. Generic real algebraic varieties...

We study matrix calculations such as diagonalization of quadratic forms under the aspect of additive complexity and relate these complexities to the complexity of matrix multiplication. While in Bürgisser et al. (1991) for multiplicative complexity the customary thick path existence argument was sufficient, here for additive complexity we need the more delicate finess of the real spectrum (cf. Bochnak et al. (1987), Becker (1986), Knebusch and Scheiderer (1989)) to obtain a complexity relativization....

Soit ${\widetilde{𝒜}}_m$ l’algèbre des fonctions sur ${\mathbf{R}}^n$ engendrée par les fonctions polynomiales et les exponentielles de formes linéaires. La partie $S$ de ${\mathbf{R}}^n$ appartient à ${𝒫}_n$ si et seulement s’il existe $m$ et $F$ dans ${\widetilde{𝒜}}_{n+m}$ pour lesquels $S$ est l’image par la projection canonique de ${\mathbf{R}}^{n+m}$ sur ${\mathbf{R}}^n$, de l’ensemble des zéros de $F$. Soit ${\widetilde{𝒫}}_n$ le plus petit sous-ensemble de parties de ${\mathbf{R}}_n$ qui contient ${𝒫}_n$, l’adhérence de ses éléments et les images par la projection canonique de ${\mathbf{R}}^n$ qui contient ${𝒫}_n$, l’adhérence de ses éléments et les images par la...

Given a real closed field R, we define a real algebraic manifold as an irreducible nonsingular algebraic subset of some Rⁿ. This paper deals with deformations of real algebraic manifolds. The main purpose is to prove rigorously the reasonableness of the following principle, which is in sharp contrast with the compact complex case: "The algebraic structure of every real algebraic manifold of positive dimension can be deformed by an arbitrarily large number of effective parameters".

We propose a refinement of the notion of blow-Nash equivalence between Nash function germs, which has been introduced in [2] as an analog in the Nash setting of the blow-analytic equivalence defined by T.-C. Kuo [13]. The new definition is more natural and geometric. Moreover, this equivalence relation still does not admit moduli for a Nash family of isolated singularities. But though the zeta functions constructed in [2] are no longer invariants for this new relation, thanks to a Denef & Loeser...