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The first steps in defining tropicalization for spherical varieties have been taken in the last few years. There are two parts to this theory: tropicalizing subvarieties of homogeneous spaces and tropicalizing their closures in spherical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Evan D. Nash

The Fr\'{e}chet mean is a fundamental notion of central tendency defined as a minimizer of a sum of squared distances in a general metric space. In this paper, we study Fr\'{e}chet means in tropical geometry -- a piecewise linear,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Kamillo Ferry , Bo Lin , Carlos Améndola , Anthea Monod , Ruriko Yoshida

For tropical $n$-variable polynomials $f, g$ a criterion of containment for tropical hypersurfaces $Trop(f)\subset Trop(g)$ is provided in terms of their Newton polyhedra $N(f), N(g)\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. Namely, $Trop(f)\subset…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Dima Grigoriev

We study the tropicalization of the image of the cone of positive definite matrices under the principal minors map. It is a polyhedral subset of the set of $M$-concave functions on the discrete $n$-dimensional cube. We show it coincides…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Abeer Al Ahmadieh , Felipe Rincón , Cynthia Vinzant , Josephine Yu

In this paper we further develop the theory of geometric tropicalization due to Hacking, Keel and Tevelev and we describe tropical methods for implicitization of surfaces. More precisely, we enrich this theory with a combinatorial formula…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Maria Angelica Cueto

We propose a generalization of tropical curves by dropping the rationality and integrality requirements while preserving the balancing condition. An interpretation of such curves as critical points of a certain quadratic functional allows…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Sergei Lanzat , Michael Polyak

We introduce tropical analogues of the notion of volume of polytopes, leading to a tropical version of the (discrete) classical isoperimetric inequality. The planar case is elementary, but a higher-dimensional generalization leads to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Jules Depersin , Stéphane Gaubert , Michael Joswig

An algorithm to give an explicit description of all the solutions to any tropical linear system $A\odot x=B\odot x$ is presented. The given system is converted into a finite (rather small) number $p$ of pairs $(S,T)$ of classical linear…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-01-24 E. Lorenzo , M. J. de la Puente

A "tropical ideal" is an ideal in the idempotent semiring of tropical polynomials that is also, degree by degree, a tropical linear space. We introduce a construction based on transversal matroids that canonically extends any principal…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Alex Fink , Jeffrey Giansiracusa , Noah Giansiracusa , Joshua Mundinger

Tropicalization is a procedure that assigns polyhedral complexes to algebraic subvarieties of a torus. If one fixes a weighted polyhedral complex, one may study the set of all subvarieties of a toric variety that have that complex as their…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-18 Eric Katz

For a tropical manifold of dimension n we show that the tropical homology classes of degree (n-1, n-1) which arise as fundamental classes of tropical cycles are precisely those in the kernel of the eigenwave map. To prove this we establish…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Philipp Jell , Johannes Rau , Kristin Shaw

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

Recently geometric hypergraphs that can be defined by intersections of pseudohalfplanes with a finite point set were defined in a purely combinatorial way. This led to extensions of earlier results about points and halfplanes to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Balázs Keszegh

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…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Alexander Woo , Alexander Yong

We prove that a set of finite perimeter is indecomposable if and only if it is, up to a choice of suitable representative, connected in the 1-fine topology. This gives a topological characterization of indecomposability which is new even in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Paolo Bonicatto , Panu Lahti , Enrico Pasqualetto

The paper studies intrinsic geometry in the tropical plane. Tropical structure in the real affine $n$-space is determined by the integer tangent vectors. Tropical isomorphisms are affine transformations preserving the integer lattice of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Grigory Mikhalkin , Mikhail Shkolnikov

Tropical mathematics is used to establish a correspondence between certain microscopic and macroscopic objects in statistical models. Tropical algebra gives a common framework for macrosystems (subsets) and their elementary constituents…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Mario Angelelli

A tropical matrix is a matrix defined over the max-plus semiring. For such matrices, there exist several non-coinciding notions of rank: the row rank, the column rank, the Schein/Barvinok rank, the Kapranov rank, or the tropical rank, among…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Pierre Guillon , Zur Izhakian , Jean Mairesse , Glenn Merlet

Hassett's moduli spaces of weighted stable curves form an important class of alternate modular compactifications of the moduli space of smooth curves with marked points. In this article we define a tropical analogue of these moduli spaces…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Martin Ulirsch

We study the class of real-valued functions on convex subsets of R^n which are computed by the maximum of finitely many affine functionals with integer slopes. We prove several results to the effect that this property of a function can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-11-21 Kiran S. Kedlaya , Philip Tynan