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Tropicalization, symmetric polynomials, and complexity

Combinatorics 2020-06-02 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

D. Grigoriev-G. Koshevoy recently proved that tropical Schur polynomials have (at worst) polynomial tropical semiring complexity. They also conjectured tropical skew Schur polynomials have at least exponential complexity; we establish a polynomial complexity upper bound. Our proof uses results about (stable) Schubert polynomials, due to R. P. Stanley and S. Billey-W. Jockusch-R. P. Stanley, together with a sufficient condition for polynomial complexity that is connected to the saturated Newton polytope property.

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@article{arxiv.1710.03312,
  title  = {Tropicalization, symmetric polynomials, and complexity},
  author = {Alexander Woo and Alexander Yong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03312},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages

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