Given a formula Φ in r variables, some of them quantified and/or occurring as arguments in trigonometric functions, we consider in this paper the problem of finding a quantifierfree formula equivalent to Φ.We present an algorithm that first computes a decomposition of the space so that the polynomials occurring in Φ are sign-invariant over each cell of this decomposition. Then the cells over which Φ is true are collected: their description gives a quantifier-free formula equivalent to Φ. The algorithm is an adaption of a well-known algorithm for the same problem with polynomial functions.
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