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We introduce a generalization of tropical polyhedra able to express both strict and non-strict inequalities. Such inequalities are handled by means of a semiring of germs (encoding infinitesimal perturbations). We develop a tropical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Xavier Allamigeon , Uli Fahrenberg , Stéphane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz , Axel Legay

We give an algorithm, with a singly exponential complexity, deciding whether a tropical linear prevariety is a tropical linear variety. The algorithm relies on a criterion to be a tropical linear variety in terms of a duality between the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Dima Grigoriev , Nicolai Vorobjov

We study a tropical linear regression problem consisting in finding the best approximation of a set of points by a tropical hyperplane. We establish a strong duality theorem, showing that the value of this problem coincides with the maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Yang Qi , Omar Saadi

We present simple compact proofs of the strong and weak duality theorems of tropical linear programming. It follows that there is no duality gap for a pair of tropical primal-dual problems. This result together with known properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Peter Butkovic

A realisation of a graph in the plane as a bar-joint framework is rigid if there are finitely many other realisations, up to isometries, with the same edge lengths. Each of these finitely-many realisations can be seen as a solution to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Oliver Clarke , Sean Dewar , Daniel Green Tripp , James Maxwell , Anthony Nixon , Yue Ren , Ben Smith

We consider the question of when points in tropical affine space uniquely determine a tropical hypersurface. We introduce a notion of multiplicity of points so that this question may be meaningful even if some of the points coincide. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Drew Johnson

An unconstrained optimization problem is formulated in terms of tropical mathematics to minimize a functional that is defined on a vector set by a matrix and calculated through multiplicative conjugate transposition. For some particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Nikolai Krivulin

We give a framework for constructing generically optimal homotopies for parametrized polynomial systems from tropical data. Here, generically optimal means that the number of paths tracked is equal to the generic number of solutions. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Paul Alexander Helminck , Oskar Henriksson , Yue Ren

We consider multidimensional optimization problems, which are formulated and solved in terms of tropical mathematics. The problems are to minimize (maximize) a linear or nonlinear function defined on vectors over an idempotent semifield,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 N. Krivulin

The tropical semiring is an algebraic system with addition ``$\max$'' and multiplication ``$+$''. As well as in conventional algebra, linear programming in the tropical semiring has been developed. In this study, we introduce a new type of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Yuki Nishida

The celebrated upper bound theorem of McMullen determines the maximal number of extreme points of a polyhedron in terms of its dimension and the number of constraints which define it, showing that the maximum is attained by the polar of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-04 Xavier Allamigeon , Stephane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz

The problem of solving tropical linear systems, a natural problem of tropical mathematics, has already proven to be very interesting from the algorithmic point of view: it is known to be in $NP\cap coNP$ but no polynomial time algorithm is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Alex Davydow

We study parameterized versions of classical algorithms for computing shortest-path trees. This is most easily expressed in terms of tropical geometry. Applications include shortest paths in traffic networks with variable link travel times.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Michael Joswig , Benjamin Schröter

This paper proposes a tropical geometry-based edge detection framework that reformulates convolution and gradient computations using min-plus and max-plus algebra. The tropical formulation emphasizes dominant intensity variations,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Shivam Kumar Jha S , Jaya NN Iyer

Many important problems in extremal combinatorics can be stated as certifying polynomial inequalities in graph homomorphism numbers, and in particular, many ask to certify pure binomial inequalities. For a fixed collection of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Maria Dascălu , Annie Raymond

We apply methods of tropical optimization to handle problems of rating alternatives on the basis of the log-Chebyshev approximation of pairwise comparison matrices. We derive a direct solution in a closed form, and investigate the obtained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Nikolai Krivulin

In this note, we propose a novel technique to reduce the algorithmic complexity of neural network training by using matrices of tropical real numbers instead of matrices of real numbers. Since the tropical arithmetics replaces…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Ozgur Ceyhan

Duality of curves is one of the important aspects of the ``classical'' algebraic geometry. In this paper, using this foundation, the duality of tropical polynomials is constructed to introduce the duality of Non-Archimedean curves. Using…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zur Izhakian

We introduce a novel intrinsic volume concept in tropical geometry. This is achieved by developing the foundations of a tropical analog of lattice point counting in polytopes. We exhibit the basic properties and compare it to existing…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Georg Loho , Matthias Schymura

We consider the tropical analogues of a particular bilevel optimization problem studied by Dempe and Franke and suggest some methods of solving these new tropical bilevel optimization problems. In particular, it is found that the algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Sergei Sergeev , Zhengliang Liu