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One-sided linear systems of the form ``$Ax=b$'' are well-known and extensively studied over the tropical (max-plus) semiring and wide classes of related idempotent semirings. The usual approach is to first find the greatest solution to such…

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We propose a gradient descent method for solving optimization problems arising in settings of tropical geometry - a variant of algebraic geometry that has attracted growing interest in applications such as computational biology, economics,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Roan Talbut , Anthea Monod

Algorithms for embedding certain types of nilpotent subalgebras in maximal subalgebras of the same type are developed, using methods of real algebraic groups. These algorithms are applied to determine non-conjugate subalgebras of the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Sajid Ali , Hassan Azad , Indranil Biswas , Ryad Ghanam , Tahir Mustafa

We show that various formulations (e.g., dual and Kullback-Csiszar iterations) of estimation of maximum entropy (ME) models can be transformed to solving systems of polynomial equations in several variables for which one can use celebrated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-08 Ambedkar Dukkipati

Let K be a field equipped with a valuation. Tropical varieties over K can be defined with a theory of Gr{\"o}bner bases taking into account the valuation of K. While generalizing the classical theory of Gr{\"o}bner bases, it is not clear…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Tristan Vaccon , Kazuhiro Yokoyama

We define a new type of ideal basis called the proper basis that improves both Gr\"obner basis and Buchberger's algorithm. Let $x_1$ be the least variable of a monomial ordering in a polynomial ring $K[x_1,\dotsc,x_n]$ over a field $K$. The…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Sheng-Ming Ma

Based on a description of project networks by max-plus algebra and poset, the adjacency of critical paths is presented using tropical geometry.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Masanori Kobayashi , Shinsuke Odagiri

Second-order superintegrable systems in dimensions two and three are essentially classified. With increasing dimension, however, the non-linear partial differential equations employed in current methods become unmanageable. Here we propose…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Jonathan Kress , Konrad Schöbel , Andreas Vollmer

We give upper and lower bounds on the Chevalley-Bass number of a field of characteristic zero, whenever this quantity is well-defined. We also describe an algorithm which computes the Chevalley-Bass number of a field, provided its maximal…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jean Gillibert , Florence Gillibert , Gabriele Ranieri

We describe a general-purpose method for finding high-quality solutions to hard optimization problems, inspired by self-organized critical models of co-evolution such as the Bak-Sneppen model. The method, called Extremal Optimization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Boettcher , Allon G. Percus

We continue the study of matrices over a supertropical algebra, proving the existence of a tangible adjoint of $A$, which provides the unique right (resp. left) quasi-inverse maximal with respect to the right (resp. left) quasi-identity…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2009-12-07 Zur Izhakian , Louis Rowen

Given a finite set of arbitrarily distributed points in affine space with arbitrary multiplicity structures, we present an algorithm to compute the reduced Groebner basis of the vanishing ideal under the lexicographic ordering. Our method…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Na Lei , Xiaopeng Zheng , Yuxue Ren

An unconstrained optimization problem is formulated in terms of tropical mathematics to minimize a functional that is defined on a vector set by a matrix and calculated through multiplicative conjugate transposition. For some particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Nikolai Krivulin

Enumerating the extremal submodular functions defined on subsets of a fixed base set has only been done for base sets up to five elements. This paper reports the results of attempting to generate all such functions on a six-element base…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Elod P. Csirmaz , Laszlo Csirmaz

Our objective in this project is three-fold, the first two covered in this paper. In tropical mathematics, as well as other mathematical theories involving semirings, when trying to formulate the tropical versions of classical algebraic…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Louis Halle Rowen

We present a formally verified global optimization framework. Given a semialgebraic or transcendental function $f$ and a compact semialgebraic domain $K$, we use the nonlinear maxplus template approximation algorithm to provide a certified…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Victor Magron , Xavier Allamigeon , Stéphane Gaubert , Benjamin Werner

Some numerical algorithms for elliptic eigenvalue problems are proposed, analyzed, and numerically tested. The methods combine advantages of the two-grid algorithm, two-space method, the shifted inverse power method, and the polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Hailong Guo , Zhimin Zhang , Ren Zhao

This paper presents a novel multi-scale method for elliptic partial differential equations with arbitrarily rough coefficients. In the spirit of numerical homogenization, the method constructs problem-adapted ansatz spaces with uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Philip Freese , Moritz Hauck , Tim Keil , Daniel Peterseim

We are concerned with a new type of supermartingale decomposition in the Max-Plus algebra, which essentially consists in expressing any supermartingale of class $(\mathcal{D})$ as a conditional expectation of some running supremum process.…

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