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We study subgroups of Thompson's group $F$ by means of an automaton associated with them. We prove that every maximal subgroup of $F$ of infinite index is closed, that is, it coincides with the subgroup of $F$ accepted by the automaton…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Gili Golan

The objective of this paper is to develop a general algebraic theory of supertropical matrix algebra, extending [11]. Our main results are as follows: * The tropical determinant (i.e., permanent) is multiplicative when all the determinants…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2009-12-07 Zur Izhakian , Louis Rowen

Totally positive (TP) and totally nonnegative (TN) matrices connect to analysis, mechanics, and to dual canonical bases in reductive groups, by well-known works of Schoenberg, Gantmacher-Krein, Lusztig, and others. TP matrices form a…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Projesh Nath Choudhury , Shaun Fallat , Chi-Kwong Li

The tropical rank of a semimodule of rational functions on a metric graph mirrors the concept of rank in linear algebra. Defined in terms of the maximal number of tropically independent elements within the semimodule, this quantity has…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Omid Amini , Stéphane Gaubert , Lucas Gierczak

We construct elementary subgroups of all reductive groups of the local isotropic rank $\geq 2$ over rings and prove their basic properties. In particular, our results may be applied to the automorphism groups of any finitely generated…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Egor Voronetsky

We study semigroup varieties generated by full and upper triangular tropical matrix semigroups and the plactic monoid of rank 4. We prove that the upper triangular tropical matrix semigroup $UT_n(\mathbb{T})$ generates a different semigroup…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Thomas Aird

We investigate the properties of positive definite and positive semi-definite symmetric matrices within the framework of symmetrized tropical algebra, an extension of tropical algebra adapted to ordered valued fields. We focus on the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Dariush Kiani , Hanieh Tavakolipour

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

We study permutability properties of matrix semigroups over commutative bipotent semirings (of which the best-known example is the tropical semiring). We prove that every such semigroup is weakly permutable (a result previous stated in the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Thomas Aird , Mark Kambites

We study tropical subrepresentations of the Boolean regular representation $\mathbb{B}[G]$ of a finite group $G$. These are equivalent to the matroids on ground set $G$ for which left-multiplication by each element of $G$ is a matroid…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Jaiung Jun , Kalina Mincheva , Jeffrey Tolliver

We exhibit a faithful representation of the plactic monoid of every finite rank as a monoid of upper triangular matrices over the tropical semiring. This answers a question first posed by Izhakian and subsequently studied by several…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Marianne Johnson , Mark Kambites

Finding the number of maximal subgroups of infinite index of a finitely generated group is a natural problem that has been solved for several classes of `geometric' groups (linear groups, hyperbolic groups, mapping class groups, etc). Here…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Dominik Francoeur , Alejandra Garrido

We prove identities on compound matrices in extended tropical semirings. Such identities include analogues to properties of conjugate matrices, powers of matrices and~$\adj(A)\det(A)^{ -1}$, all of which have implications on the eigenvalues…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Adi Niv

We study natural linear representations of self-similar groups over finite fields. In particular, we show that if the group is generated by a finite automaton, then obtained matrices are automatic. This shows a new relation between two…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-18 R. Grigorchuk , Y. Leonov , V. Nekrashevych , V. Sushchansky

This is a foundational paper in tropical linear algebra, which is linear algebra over the min-plus semiring. We introduce and compare three natural definitions of the rank of a matrix, called the Barvinok rank, the Kapranov rank and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Develin , F. Santos , B. Sturmfels

We introduce the notion of semigroup with a tight ideal series and investigate their closures in semitopological semigroups, particularly inverse semigroups with continuous inversion. As a corollary we show that the symmetric inverse…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-19 Oleg Gutik , Jimmie Lawson , Dušan Repovš

We show that the number of conjugacy classes of maximal finite subgroups of a lattice in a semisimple Lie group is linearly bounded by the covolume of the lattice. Moreover, for higher rank groups, we show that this number grows sublinearly…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-13 Iddo Samet

We define tropical analogues of the notions of linear space and Plucker coordinate and study their combinatorics. We introduce tropical analogues of intersection and dualization and define a tropical linear space built by repeated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David E Speyer

In the present paper, we show that many combinatorial and topological objects, such as maps, hypermaps, three-dimensional pavings, constellations and branched coverings of the two--sphere admit any given finite automorphism group. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Rémi Bottinelli , Laura Grave de Peralta , Alexander Kolpakov

We consider the action of a permutation group $G$ of order $k$ on the tropical polynomial semiring in $n$ variables. We prove that the sub-semiring of invariant polynomials is finitely generated if and only if $G$ is generated by…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Harm Derksen