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Complexity of deciding whether a tropical linear prevariety is a tropical variety

Algebraic Geometry 2019-09-27 v3

Abstract

We give an algorithm, with a singly exponential complexity, deciding whether a tropical linear prevariety is a tropical linear variety. The algorithm relies on a criterion to be a tropical linear variety in terms of a duality between the tropical orthogonalization AA^\perp and the double tropical orthogonalization AA^{\perp \perp} of a subset AA of the vector space (R{})n({\mathbb R} \cup \{ \infty \})^n. We also give an example of a countable family of tropical hyperplanes such that their intersection is not a tropical prevariety.

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@article{arxiv.1803.01068,
  title  = {Complexity of deciding whether a tropical linear prevariety is a tropical variety},
  author = {Dima Grigoriev and Nicolai Vorobjov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01068},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages