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The Fundamental Theorem of Tropical Differential Algebraic Geometry

Algebraic Geometry 2016-07-06 v3

Abstract

Let II be an ideal of the ring of Laurent polynomials K[x1±1,,xn±1]K[x_1^{\pm1},\ldots,x_n^{\pm1}] with coefficients in a real-valued field (K,v)(K,v). The fundamental theorem of tropical algebraic geometry states the equality trop(V(I))=V(trop(I))\text{trop}(V(I))=V(\text{trop}(I)) between the tropicalization trop(V(I))\text{trop}(V(I)) of the closed subscheme V(I)(K)nV(I)\subset (K^*)^n and the tropical variety V(trop(I))V(\text{trop}(I)) associated to the tropicalization of the ideal trop(I)\text{trop}(I). In this work we prove an analogous result for a differential ideal GG of the ring of differential polynomials K[[t]]{x1,,xn}K[[t]]\{x_1,\ldots,x_n\}, where KK is an uncountable algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. We define the tropicalization trop(Sol(G))\text{trop}(\text{Sol}(G)) of the set of solutions Sol(G)K[[t]]n\text{Sol}(G)\subset K[[t]]^n of GG, and the set of solutions associated to the tropicalization of the ideal trop(G)\text{trop}(G). These two sets are linked by a tropicalization morphism trop:Sol(G)Sol(trop(G))\text{trop}:\text{Sol}(G)\longrightarrow \text{Sol}(\text{trop}(G)). We show the equality trop(Sol(G))=Sol(trop(G))\text{trop}(\text{Sol}(G))=\text{Sol}(\text{trop}(G)), answering a question raised by D. Grigoriev earlier this year.

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@article{arxiv.1510.01000,
  title  = {The Fundamental Theorem of Tropical Differential Algebraic Geometry},
  author = {Fuensanta Aroca and Cristhian Garay and Zeinab Toghani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01000},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages, abstract added, simplification of proofs in Sections 6 and 7, added references for Sections 1 and 7. To appear in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics