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Asymptotic properties of matrices are, in general, difficult to analyze with classical mathematical techniques. In very specific cases, there is a well-known connection between the asymptotic behavior of a matrix's leading eigenvector and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Balazs Kustar

A multidimensional extremal problem in the idempotent algebra setting is considered which consists in minimizing a nonlinear functional defined on a finite-dimensional semimodule over an idempotent semifield. The problem integrates two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-25 Nikolai Krivulin

In this work, we examine the process of Tropical Polynomial Division, a geometric method which seeks to emulate the division of regular polynomials, when applied to those of the max-plus semiring. This is done via the approximation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Georgios Smyrnis , Petros Maragos

Tropical polyhedra seem to play a central role in static analysis of softwares. These tropical geometrical objects play also a central role in parity games especially mean payoff games and energy games. And determining if an initial state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 L. Truffet

We consider decision problems of rating alternatives based on their pairwise comparisons according to two criteria. Given pairwise comparison matrices for each criterion, the problem is to find the overall scores of the alternatives. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Nikolai Krivulin

Tropical recurrent sequences are introduced satisfying a given vector (being a tropical counterpart of classical linear recurrent sequences). We consider the case when Newton polygon of the vector has a single (bounded) edge. In this case…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Dima Grigoriev

Inspired by numerical homotopy methods we propose a combinatorial homotopy algorithm for finding all isolated solutions to a tropical polynomial systems of n tropical polynomials in n variables. In particular, a tropicalisation of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Anders Nedergaard Jensen

An arrangement of finitely many tropical hyperplanes in the tropical torus leads to a notion of `type' data for points, with the underlying unlabeled arrangement giving rise to `coarse type'. It is shown that the decomposition of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Anton Dochtermann , Michael Joswig , Raman Sanyal

Tropical geometry has recently found several applications in the analysis of neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions. This paper presents a new look at the problem of tropical polynomial division and its application to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ioannis Kordonis , Petros Maragos

Tropical mathematics redefines the rules of arithmetic by replacing addition with taking a maximum, and by replacing multiplication with addition. After briefly discussing a tropical version of linear algebra, we study polynomials build…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Ralph Morrison

We consider problems of rating alternatives based on their pairwise comparison under various assumptions, including constraints on the final scores of alternatives. The problems are formulated in the framework of tropical mathematics to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-18 Nikolai Krivulin

Model reduction is a central topic in systems biology and dynamical systems theory, for reducing the complexity of detailed models, finding important parameters, and developing multi-scale models for instance. While perturbation theory is a…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-27 Sylvain Soliman , Francois Fages , Ovidiu Radulescu

We present two effective tools for computing the positive tropicalization of algebraic varieties. First, we outline conditions under which the initial ideal can be used to compute the positive tropicalization, offering a real analogue to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Kemal Rose , Máté L. Telek

As a new concept tropical halfspaces are introduced to the (linear algebraic) geometry of the tropical semiring (R,min,+). This yields exterior descriptions of the tropical polytopes that were recently studied by Develin and Sturmfels in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Joswig

Tropical implicitization means computing the tropicalization of a unirational variety from its parametrization. In the case of a hypersurface, this amounts to finding the Newton polytope of the implicit equation, without computing its…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Kemal Rose , Bernd Sturmfels , Simon Telen

This thesis delves into the geometry of abstract tropical curves, exploring their complete linear system and associated tropical submodules. We establish a lower bound on the dimension of tropical submodules in terms of the Baker-Norine…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Matthew Dupraz

The tropical semiring is a semiring of extended real numbers, where the operations of `max' and `+' replace the usual addition and multiplication, respectively. Difference equations obtained from the ultradiscrete limit of discrete…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Yuki Nishida , Sennosuke Watanabe , Yoshihide Watanabe

We consider multidimensional optimization problems in the framework of tropical mathematics. The problems are formulated to minimize a nonlinear objective function that is defined on vectors over an idempotent semifield and calculated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Nikolai Krivulin

We examine a multidimensional optimisation problem in the tropical mathematics setting. The problem involves the minimisation of a nonlinear function defined on a finite-dimensional semimodule over an idempotent semifield subject to linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Nikolai Krivulin

We consider optimization problems that are formulated and solved in the framework of tropical mathematics. The problems consist in minimizing or maximizing functionals defined on vectors of finite-dimensional semimodules over idempotent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Nikolai Krivulin