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We introduce and study polystable divisors on a tropical curve, which are the tropical analogue of polystable torsion-free rank-1 sheaves on a nodal curve. We construct a universal tropical Jacobian over the moduli space of tropical curves…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Alex Abreu , Sally Andria , Marco Pacini , Danny Taboada

We propose an elementary tropical analogue of a reductive group that combines the datum of a Weyl group and the tropicalization of a fixed maximal torus. For the classical groups, as well as $G_2$, these tropical reductive groups admit…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Andreas Gross , Arne Kuhrs , Martin Ulirsch , Dmitry Zakharov

We study the relationship between line bundles on tropical compactifications of a very affine variety $Y$ and toric b-divisors on the associated tropical variety ${\rm Trop}(Y)$. By focusing on numerical equivalence classes, we construct a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Carla Novelli , Stefano Urbinati

We investigate different notions of linear independence and of matrix rank that are relevant for max-plus or tropical semirings. The factor rank and tropical rank have already received attention, we compare them with the ranks defined in…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2009-12-13 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Alexander Guterman

Asymptotic properties of matrices are, in general, difficult to analyze with classical mathematical techniques. In very specific cases, there is a well-known connection between the asymptotic behavior of a matrix's leading eigenvector and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Balazs Kustar

A tropical (or min-plus) semiring is a set $\mathbb{Z}$ (or $\mathbb{Z \cup \{\infty\}}$) endowed with two operations: $\oplus$, which is just usual minimum, and $\odot$, which is usual addition. In tropical algebra the vector $x$ is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Dima Grigoriev , Vladimir V. Podolskii

We develop two generalizations of contraction theory, namely, semi-contraction and weak-contraction theory. First, using the notion of semi-norm, we propose a geometric framework for semi-contraction theory. We introduce matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Saber Jafarpour , Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Francesco Bullo

In this letter, we study distributed optimization, where a network of agents, abstracted as a directed graph, collaborates to minimize the average of locally-known convex functions. Most of the existing approaches over directed graphs are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Ran Xin , Usman A. Khan

Tree projections provide a unifying framework to deal with most structural decomposition methods of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Within this framework, a CSP instance is decomposed into a number of sub-problems, called views,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Georg Gottlob , Gianlugi Greco , Francesco Scarcello

The motivic nearby fiber is an invariant obtained from degenerating a complex variety over a disc. It specializes to the Euler characteristic of the original variety but also contains information on the variation of Hodge structure…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Eric Katz , Alan Stapledon

Questions at the intersection of the AdS/CFT correspondence and quantum information theory motivate the study of projectors in sequences of subalgebras of finite-dimensional commutative associative semisimple algebras $\mathcal{A}$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Garreth Kemp , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

Combinatorial rigidity theory seeks to describe the rigidity or flexibility of bar-joint frameworks in R^d in terms of the structure of the underlying graph G. The goal of this article is to broaden the foundations of combinatorial rigidity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-05 Mike Develin , Jeremy L. Martin , Victor Reiner

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

We relate some features of Bruhat-Tits buildings and their compactifications to tropical geometry. If G is a semisimple group over a suitable non-Archimedean field, the stabilizers of points in the Bruhat-Tits building of G and in some of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-16 Annette Werner

We introduce a framework for constructing fractal trees via analytic generator fields, replacing discrete affine transformations and symbolic rewriting rules by the integration of smooth vector fields in an internal state space. In this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Henk Mulder

Can algebraic geometry enhance the sharpness, robustness, and interpretability of modern neural reasoning models by equipping them with a mathematically grounded inductive bias? To answer this, we introduce Tropical Attention, an attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Baran Hashemi , Kurt Pasque , Chris Teska , Ruriko Yoshida

The paper focuses on a multidimensional optimization problem, which is formulated in terms of tropical mathematics and consists in minimizing a nonlinear objective function subject to linear inequality constraints. To solve the problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Nikolai Krivulin

In this paper we propose a parallel coordinate descent algorithm for solving smooth convex optimization problems with separable constraints that may arise e.g. in distributed model predictive control (MPC) for linear network systems. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Ion Necoara , Dragos Clipici

Tropical Geometry and Mathematical Morphology share the same max-plus and min-plus semiring arithmetic and matrix algebra. In this chapter we summarize some of their main ideas and common (geometric and algebraic) structure, generalize and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Petros Maragos , Emmanouil Theodosis

We introduce new discrete best approximation problems, formulated and solved in the framework of tropical algebra, which deals with semirings and semifields with idempotent addition. Given a set of samples, each consisting of the input and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Nikolai Krivulin