The Newton Polytope of the Implicit Equation
Combinatorics
2012-02-13 v1 Symbolic Computation
Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We apply tropical geometry to study the image of a map defined by Laurent polynomials with generic coefficients. If this image is a hypersurface then our approach gives a construction of its Newton polytope.
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@article{arxiv.math/0607368,
title = {The Newton Polytope of the Implicit Equation},
author = {Bernd Sturmfels and Jenia Tevelev and Josephine Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0607368},
year = {2012}
}
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18 pages, 3 figures