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We investigate location problems whose optimum lies in the tropical convex hull of the input points. Firstly, we study geodesically star-convex sets under the asymmetric tropical distance and introduce the class of tropically quasiconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Andrei Comăneci

We introduce an algorithm that samples a set of loop momenta distributed as a given Feynman integrand. The algorithm uses the tropical sampling method and can be applied to evaluate phase-space-type integrals efficiently. We provide an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Michael Borinsky , Mathijs Fraaije

We find a relation between mixed volumes of several polytopes and the convex hull of their union, deducing it from the following fact: the mixed volume of a collection of polytopes only depends on the product of their support functions…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Alexander Esterov

In 2004 Pachter and Speyer introduced the higher dissimilarity maps for phylogenetic trees and asked two important questions about their relation to the tropical Grassmannian. Multiple authors, using independent methods, answered…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Alessio Caminata , Noah Giansiracusa , Han-Bom Moon , Luca Schaffler

Deep neural networks show great success when input vectors are in an Euclidean space. However, those classical neural networks show a poor performance when inputs are phylogenetic trees, which can be written as vectors in the tropical…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ruriko Yoshida , Georgios Aliatimis , Keiji Miura

This is a survey on tropical polytopes from the combinatorial point of view and with a focus on algorithms. Tropical convexity is interesting because it relates a number of combinatorial concepts including ordinary convexity, monomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-10-12 Michael Joswig

Classification of gene trees is an important task both in the analysis of multi-locus phylogenetic data, and assessment of the convergence of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analyses used in Bayesian phylogenetic tree reconstruction. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Georgios Aliatimis , Ruriko Yoshida , Burak Boyaci , James A. Grant

The problem of comparing probability distributions is at the heart of many tasks in statistics and machine learning. Established comparison methods treat the standard setting that the distributions are supported in the same space. Recently,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Roan Talbut , Daniele Tramontano , Yueqi Cao , Mathias Drton , Anthea Monod

Given a dissimilarity map $\delta$ on finite set $X$, the set of ultrametrics (equidistant tree metrics) which are $l^\infty$-nearest to $\delta$ is a tropical polytope. We give an internal description of this tropical polytope which we use…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Daniel Irving Bernstein

In classical geometry, a linear space is a space that is closed under linear combinations. In tropical geometry, it has long been a consensus that tropical varieties defined by valuated matroids are the tropical analogue of linear spaces.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Simon Hampe

Phylogenomics is a new field which applies to tools in phylogenetics to genome data. Due to a new technology and increasing amount of data, we face new challenges to analyze them over a space of phylogenetic trees. Because a space of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Ruriko Yoshida

In this paper we study tropicalization of Grassmannian and linear varieties. In particular, we study the tropical linear spaces cor- responding to the phylogenetic trees. We prove that corresponding to each subtree of the phylogenetic tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Ambedkar Dukkipati , Aritra Sen

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

We establish a new notion of tropical convexity for signed tropical numbers. We provide several equivalent descriptions involving balance relations and intersections of open halfspaces as well as the image of a union of polytopes over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Georg Loho , László A. Végh

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

Phylogenetic trees provide a fundamental representation of evolutionary relationships, yet the combinatorial explosion of possible tree topologies renders inference computationally challenging. Classical approaches to characterizing tree…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-29 Samir Bhatt , John Sabol , Papri Dey , Matthew J. Penn , David Duchene , Ruriko Yoshida

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 prove that the number of tropical critical points of an affine matroid (M,e) is equal to the beta invariant of M. Motivated by the computation of maximum likelihood degrees, this number is defined to be the degree of the intersection of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Federico Ardila-Mantilla , Christopher Eur , Raul Penaguiao

In tropical algebraic geometry, the solution sets of polynomial equations are piecewise-linear. We introduce the tropical variety of a polynomial ideal, and we identify it with a polyhedral subcomplex of the Grobner fan. The tropical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Speyer , Bernd Sturmfels

The asymmetric tropical distance is a distance measure on the tropical torus $\mathbb{R}^n/\mathbb{R}\mathbf{1}$ and in particular on the Bergman fan $B(K_N) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{\binom{N}{2}}/\mathbb{R}\mathbf{1}$ of the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Fabian Lenzen , Lena Weis