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We give an elementary introduction to some recent polyhedral techniques for understanding and solving systems of multivariate polynomial equations. We provide numerous concrete examples and illustrations, and assume no background in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-20 J. Maurice Rojas

We introduce the notion of tropical defects, certificates that a system of polynomial equations is not a tropical basis, and provide two algorithms for finding them in affine spaces of complementary dimension to the zero set. We use these…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Paul Görlach , Yue Ren , Jeff Sommars

This paper investigates the cost of solving systems of sparse polynomial equations by homotopy continuation. First, a space of systems of $n$-variate polynomial equations is specified through $n$ monomial bases. The natural locus for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Gregorio Malajovich

The main mathematical focus of this paper is a class of parametrised polynomial systems that we refer to as being tropically transverse. We show how their generic number of solutions can be expressed as the mixed volume of a modified…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Isaac Holt , Yue Ren

This paper is a survey on universal algorithms for solving the matrix Bellman equations over semirings and especially tropical and idempotent semirings. However, original algorithms are also presented. Some applications and software…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-01-20 Grigory L. Litvinov , Anatoly Ya. Rodionov , Sergei N. Sergeev , Andrei N. Sobolevski

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

Marginal polytopes are important geometric objects that arise in statistics as the polytopes underlying hierarchical log-linear models. These polytopes can be used to answer geometric questions about these models, such as determining the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Jane Ivy Coons , Joseph Cummings , Benjamin Hollering , Aida Maraj

We investigate similarities between the category of vector spaces and that of polytopal algebras, containing the former as a full subcategory. In Section 2 we introduce the notion of a polytopal Picard group and show that it is trivial for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Winfried Bruns , Joseph Gubeladze

A numerical irreducible decomposition for a polynomial system provides representations for the irreducible factors of all positive dimensional solution sets of the system, separated from its isolated solutions. Homotopy continuation methods…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jan Verschelde

The purpose of this note is to give an exposition of some interesting combinatorics and convex geometry concepts that appear in algebraic geometry in relation to counting the number of solutions of a system of polynomial equations in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Kiumars Kaveh , A. G. Khovanskii

We analyze a recent application of homotopy perturbation method to some heat-like and wave-like models and show that its main results are merely the Taylor expansions of exponential and hyperbolic functions. Besides, the authors require…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 Francisco M. Fernandez

The purpose of this note is to survey a methodology to solve systems of polynomial equations and inequalities. The techniques we discuss use the algebra of multivariate polynomials with coefficients over a field to create large-scale linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Jesus A. De Loera , Peter N. Malkin , Pablo A. Parrilo

The purpose of this paper is to generalise Sullivan's rational homotopy theory to non-nilpotent spaces, providing an alternative approach to defining Toen's schematic homotopy types over any field k of characteristic zero. New features…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-02-04 J. P. Pridham

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

In the last few years there has been a growing interest towards methods for statistical inference and learning based on computational geometry and, notably, tropical geometry, that is, the study of algebraic varieties over the min-plus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Davide Barbarossa , Paolo Pistone

The new method for obtaining a variety of extensions of Hermite polynomials is given. As a first example a family of orthogonal polynomial systems which includes the generalized Hermite polynomials is considered. Apparently, either these…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Borzov

We construct a general framework for tropical differential equations based on idempotent semirings and an idempotent version of differential algebra. Over a differential ring equipped with a non-archimedean norm enhanced with additional…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Jeffrey Giansiracusa , Stefano Mereta

While automatically generated polynomial elimination templates have sparked great progress in the field of 3D computer vision, there remain many problems for which the degree of the constraints or the number of unknowns leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Xinyue Zhang , Zijia Dai , Wanting Xu , Laurent Kneip

We implement a real polyhedral homotopy method using three functions. The first function provides a certificate that our real polyhedral homotopy is applicable to a given system; the second function generates binomial systems for a start…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Kisun Lee , Julia Lindberg , Jose Israel Rodriguez

We develop numerical homotopy algorithms for solving systems of polynomial equations arising from the classical Schubert calculus. These homotopies are optimal in that generically no paths diverge. For problems defined by hypersurface…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Birkett Huber , Frank Sottile , Bernd Sturmfels