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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

We study the tropicalization of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices over the ordered field of real Puiseux series. The tropical PSD matrices form the normal cone of the Newton polytope of the symmetric determinant at the vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Josephine Yu

We introduce a notion of Lorentzian proper position in close analogy to proper position of stable polynomials. Using this notion, we give a new characterization of elementary quotients of M-convex function that parallels the Lorentzian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Jidong Wang

Recently geometric hypergraphs that can be defined by intersections of pseudohalfplanes with a finite point set were defined in a purely combinatorial way. This led to extensions of earlier results about points and halfplanes to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Balázs Keszegh

We present tools and definitions to study abstract tropical manifolds in dimension 2, which we call simply tropical surfaces. This includes explicit descriptions of intersection numbers of 1-cycles, normal bundles to some curves and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Kristin Shaw

The notion of a tropical vector bundle on a toric variety was recently introduced by Khan-Maclagan and Kaveh-Manon. In this paper, we study the Euler characteristic and rank of global sections for tropical vector bundles. We associate a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Suhyon Chong , Kiumars Kaveh

This article discusses a combinatorial extension of tropical intersection theory to spaces given by glueing quotients of partially open convex polyhedral cones by finitely many automorphisms. This extension is done in terms of linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Diego A. Robayo Bargans

The goal of this note is to affirm a local version of the conjecture of Nisse--Sottile [NS16] on higher convexity of complements of tropical varieties, while providing a family of counter-examples for the global Nisse--Sottle conjecture in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Karim Adiprasito , Farhad Babaee

The Fr\'{e}chet mean is a fundamental notion of central tendency defined as a minimizer of a sum of squared distances in a general metric space. In this paper, we study Fr\'{e}chet means in tropical geometry -- a piecewise linear,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Kamillo Ferry , Bo Lin , Carlos Améndola , Anthea Monod , Ruriko Yoshida

This paper surveys {\it tropical modifications}, which have already become a folklore in tropical geometry. Tropical modifications are used in tropical intersection theory, tropical Hodge theory, and in the study of singularities. They…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Nikita Kalinin

We introduce a sheaf-theoretic approach to tropical homology, especially for tropical homology with potentially non-compact supports. Our setup is suited to study the functorial properties of tropical homology, and we show that it behaves…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Andreas Gross , Farbod Shokrieh

We give a characterization of the minimal tropical half-spaces containing a given tropical polyhedron, from which we derive a counter example showing that the number of such minimal half-spaces can be infinite, contradicting some statements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-04-12 Stephane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz

We investigate a canonical extension of a conventional combinatorial notion of reduced divisors to a notion of tropical projections, which can be defined as the unique minimizers of the so-called $B$-pseudonorms with respect to compact…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Ye Luo

We introduce tropical dual numbers as an extension of tropical semiring. By this innovation, one can work with honest ideals, instead of congruences, and recover the Euclidean topology on affine tropical spaces similar to Zariski's approach…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Keyvan Yaghmayi

Towards building tropical analogues of adic spaces, we study certain spaces of prime congruences as a topological semiring replacement for the space of continuous valuations on a topological ring. This requires building the theory of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Netanel Friedenberg , Kalina Mincheva

Tropical oriented matroids were defined by Ardila and Develin in 2007. They are a tropical analogue of classical oriented matroids in the sense that they encode the properties of the types of points in an arrangement of tropical hyperplanes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Silke Horn

In this paper we give an interpretation to the boundary points of the compactification of the parameter space of convex projective structures on an n-manifold M. These spaces are closed semi-algebraic subsets of the variety of characters of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Daniele Alessandrini

Tropical caustic of a convex domain on the plane is a canonically associated tropical analytic curve inside the domain. In this note we give a graphical proof for the classification of its intermediate vertices, implying in particular that…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Mikhail Shkolnikov

We establish a characterization of the vertices of a tropical polyhedron defined as the intersection of finitely many half-spaces. We show that a point is a vertex if, and only if, a directed hypergraph, constructed from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Xavier Allamigeon , Stephane Gaubert , Eric Goubault

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