We discuss some approaches to the topological study of real quadratic mappings. Two effective methods of computing the Euler characteristics of fibers are presented which enable one to obtain comprehensive results for quadratic mappings with two-dimensional fibers. As an illustration we obtain a complete topological classification of configuration spaces of planar pentagons.
This paper investigates the geometry of the expansion of the real field ℝ by restricted quasianalytic functions. The main purpose is to establish quantifier elimination, description of definable functions by terms, the valuation property and preparation theorem (in the sense of Parusiński-Lion-Rolin). To this end, we study non-standard models of the universal diagram T of in the language ℒ augmented by the names of rational powers. Our approach makes no appeal to the Weierstrass preparation...
This paper investigates hyperbolic polynomials with quasianalytic coefficients. Our main purpose is to prove factorization theorems for such polynomials, and next to generalize the results of K. Kurdyka and L. Paunescu about perturbation of analytic families of symmetric matrices to the quasianalytic setting.