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Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture is false

Lai, Zehua et al.
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We provide a counterexample to the Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture: a continuous function that is piecewise quadratic on a finite collection of semialgebraic sets that partition $\mathbb{R}^n$ but that cannot be expressed as a finite lattice combination of polynomials. The counterexample was found with t
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