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Tropical secant varieties of linear spaces

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate tropical secant varieties of ordinary linear spaces. These correspond to the log-limit sets of ordinary toric varieties; we show that their interesting parts are combinatorially isomorphic to a certain natural subcomplex of the complex of regular subdivisions of a corresponding point set, and we display the range of behavior of this object. We also use this characterization to reformulate the question of determining Barvinok rank into a question regarding regular subdivisions of products of simplices.

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@article{arxiv.math/0405115,
  title  = {Tropical secant varieties of linear spaces},
  author = {Mike Develin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0405115},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages

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