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We describe a canonical compactification of a polyhedral complex in Euclidean space. When the recession cones of the polyhedral complex form a fan, the compactified polyhedral complex is a subspace of a tropical toric variety. In this case,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Lars Kastner , Kristin Shaw , Anna-Lena Winz

Using elementary duality properties of positive semidefinite moment matrices and polynomial sum-of-squares decompositions, we prove that the convex hull of rationally parameterized algebraic varieties is semidefinite representable (that is,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-31 Didier Henrion

An $n\times n$ symmetric matrix $A$ is copositive if the quadratic form $x^TAx$ is nonnegative on the nonnegative orthant $\mathbb{R}^{n}_{\geq 0}$. The cone of copositive matrices contains the cone of matrices which are the sum of a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Tea Štrekelj , Aljaž Zalar

We extend the fundamentals for tropical convexity beyond the tropically positive orthant expanding the theory developed by Loho and V\'egh (ITCS 2020). We study two notions of convexity for signed tropical numbers called 'TO-convexity'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Georg Loho , Mateusz Skomra

This paper is about the combinatorics of finite point configurations in the tropical projective space or, dually, of arrangements of finitely many tropical hyperplanes. Moreover, arrangements of finitely many tropical halfspaces can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Michael Joswig , Georg Loho

Copositive and completely positive matrices play an increasingly important role in Applied Mathematics, namely as a key concept for approximating NP-hard optimization problems. The cone of copositive matrices of a given order and the cone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Naomi Shaked-Monderer , Abraham Berman , Immanuel M. Bomze , Florian Jarre , Werner Schachinger

The tropicalization of a linear space over a non-archimedean field is a tropical linear space. In this paper, we present a method for computing the tropicalization of any lattice over a valuation ring. The resulting tropical semimodule is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Yassine El Maazouz

Sylvester's criterion characterizes positive definite (PD) and positive semidefinite (PSD) matrices without the need of eigendecomposition. It states that a symmetric matrix is PD if and only if all of its leading principal minors are…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Mingrui Zhang , Peng Ding

The T-product for third-order tensors has been used extensively in the literature. In this paper, we first introduce the first-order and second-order T-derivatives for the multi-vector real-valued function with the tensor T-product; and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Meng-Meng Zheng , Zheng-Hai Huang , Yong Wang

A central question in optimization is to maximize (or minimize) a linear function over a given polytope P. To solve such a problem in practice one needs a concise description of the polytope P. In this paper we are interested in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Hamza Fawzi , James Saunderson , Pablo A. Parrilo

The positive semidefinite (psd) rank of a polytope is the smallest $k$ for which the cone of $k \times k$ real symmetric psd matrices admits an affine slice that projects onto the polytope. In this paper we show that the psd rank of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-01 João Gouveia , Richard Z. Robinson , Rekha R. Thomas

We introduce and study three different notions of tropical rank for symmetric and dissimilarity matrices in terms of minimal decompositions into rank 1 symmetric matrices, star tree matrices, and tree matrices. Our results provide a close…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-09 Dustin Cartwright , Melody Chan

We present a simple and elementary procedure to sketch the tropical conic given by a degree--two homogeneous tropical polynomial. These conics are trees of a very particular kind. Given such a tree, we explain how to compute a defining…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-16 M. Ansola , M. J. de la Puente

The tropical Stiefel map associates to a tropical matrix A its tropical Pluecker vector of maximal minors, and thus a tropical linear space L(A). We call the L(A)s obtained in this way Stiefel tropical linear spaces. We prove that they are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Alex Fink , Felipe Rincón

We study singularities in tropical hypersurfaces defined by a valuation over a field of positive characteristic. We provide a method to compute the set of singular points of a tropical hypersurface in positive characteristic and the p-adic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-06 Luis Felipe Tabera

In this paper, we study tropicalisations of families of curves with a singularity in a fixed point. The tropicalisation of such a family is a linear tropical variety. We describe its maximal dimensional cones using results about linear…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Hannah Markwig , Thomas Markwig , Eugenii Shustin

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

The tropical convex hull of a finite set of points in tropical projective space has a natural structure of a cellular free resolution. Therefore, methods from computational commutative algebra can be used to compute tropical convex hulls.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-13 Florian Block , Josephine Yu

We show that several decision problems originating from max-plus or tropical convexity are equivalent to zero-sum two player game problems. In particular, we set up an equivalence between the external representation of tropical convex sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Alexander Guterman

We study the tropicalization of intersections of plane curves, under the assumption that they have the same tropicalization. We show that the set of tropical divisors that arise in this manner is a pure dimensional balanced polyhedral…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Yoav Len , Matthew Satriano