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Given the equations of the surfaces, our goal is to construct a univariate polynomial one of the zeroes of which coincides with the square of the distance between these surfaces. To achieve this goal we employ the Elimination Theory methods.
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Uteshev, A.Y., Yashina, M.V. (2007). Distance Computation from an Ellipsoid to a Linear or a Quadric Surface in IRn . In: Ganzha, V.G., Mayr, E.W., Vorozhtsov, E.V. (eds) Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing. CASC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4770. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75187-8_31
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