%0 Journal Article
%T How to show a set is not algebraic
%A Clint McCrory
%J Mathematics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%X We revisit Akbulut and King's first example of a compact semialgebraic set which satisfies Sullivan's local Euler characteristic condition, but which is not homeomorphic to an algebraic set. A nontrivial obstruction is computed using the link operator on the ring of constructible functions.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106084v1