Computing tropical curves via homotopy continuation
Algebraic Geometry
2016-08-12 v1
Abstract
Exploiting a connection between amoebas and tropical curves, we devise a method for computing tropical curves using numerical algebraic geometry and give an implementation. As an application, we use this technique to compute Newton polygons of -polynomials of knots.
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@article{arxiv.1408.3105,
title = {Computing tropical curves via homotopy continuation},
author = {Anders Jensen and Anton Leykin and Josephine Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.3105},
year = {2016}
}
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16 pages, 3 figures