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We introduce tropical complexes, as an enrichment of the dual complex of a degeneration with additional data from non-transverse intersection numbers. We define cycles, divisors, and linear equivalence on tropical complexes, analogous both…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Dustin Cartwright

In this paper we develop a combinatorial abstraction of tropical linear programming. This generalizes the search for a feasible point of a system of min-plus-inequalities. It is based on the polyhedral properties of triangulations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Georg Loho

Polynomial systems occur in many areas of science and engineering. Unlike general nonlinear systems, the algebraic structure enables to compute all solutions of a polynomial system. We describe our massive parallel predictor-corrector…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Jan Verschelde , Xiangcheng Yu

We present numerical homotopy continuation algorithms for solving systems of equations on a variety in the presence of a finite Khovanskii basis. These take advantage of Anderson's flat degeneration to a toric variety. When Anderson's…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Michael Burr , Frank Sottile , Elise Walker

We develop a new method that improves the efficiency of equation-by-equation algorithms for solving polynomial systems. Our method is based on a novel geometric construction, and reduces the total number of homotopy paths that must be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Timothy Duff , Anton Leykin , Jose Israel Rodriguez

Finding a common factor of two multivariate polynomials with approximate coefficients is a problem in symbolic-numeric computing. Taking a tropical view on this problem leads to efficient preprocessing techniques, applying polyhedral…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-02 Danko Adrovic , Jan Verschelde

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

In this paper we study algorithmic aspects of tropical intersection theory. We analyse how divisors and intersection products on tropical cycles can actually be computed using polyhedral geometry. The main focus of this paper is the study…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Simon Hampe

A polyhedral method to solve a system of polynomial equations exploits its sparse structure via the Newton polytopes of the polynomials. We propose a hybrid symbolic-numeric method to compute a Puiseux series expansion for every space curve…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Nathan Bliss , Jan Verschelde

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

A polynomial complexity algorithm is designed which tests whether a point belongs to a given tropical linear variety.

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Dima Grigoriev

We develop a tropical analogue of the classical double description method allowing one to compute an internal representation (in terms of vertices) of a polyhedron defined externally (by inequalities). The heart of the tropical algorithm is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Xavier Allamigeon , Stephane Gaubert , Eric Goubault

The number of positive solutions of a system of two polynomials in two variables defined in the field of real numbers with a total of five distinct monomials cannot exceed 15. All previously known examples have at most 5 positive solutions.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Boulos El Hilany

By a numerical continuation method called a diagonal homotopy we can compute the intersection of two positive dimensional solution sets of polynomial systems. This paper proposes to use this diagonal homotopy as the key step in a procedure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew J. Sommese , Jan Verschelde , Charles W. Wampler

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

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

We apply methods and techniques of tropical optimization to develop a new theoretical and computational framework for the implementation of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in multi-criteria problems of rating alternatives from pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Nikolai Krivulin , Sergei Sergeev

We produce new combinatorial methods for approaching the tropical maximal rank conjecture, including inductive procedures for deducing new cases of the conjecture on graphs of increasing genus from any given case. Using explicit…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 David Jensen , Sam Payne

An algorithm is designed which decomposes a tropical univariate rational function into a composition of tropical binomials and trinomials. When a function is monotone, the composition consists just of binomials. Similar algorithms are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Dima Grigoriev

Using tropical geometry one can translate problems in enumerative geometry to combinatorial problems. Thus tropical geometry is a powerful tool in enumerative geometry over the complex and real numbers. Results from $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Andrés Jaramillo Puentes , Sabrina Pauli