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We examine a new optimization problem formulated in the tropical mathematics setting as a further extension of certain known problems. The problem is to minimize a nonlinear objective function, which is defined on vectors over an idempotent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-24 N. Krivulin

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

We introduce and study a new class of generalized convex functions termed star quasiconvex functions. This class includes convex, star-convex, quasiconvex, quasar-convex, and positively homogeneous functions of any degree $p>0$ as special…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Phan Quoc Khanh , Felipe Lara

We introduce a methodology to study the possible matter flows of an ecosystem defined by observational biomass data and realistic biological constraints. The flows belong to a polyhedron in a multi dimensional space making statistical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-04 Jean-Guy Caputo , Valerie Girardin , Arnaud Knippel , Hieu Nguyen , Nathalie Niquil , Quentin Nogues

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

We introduce a notion of dimension of max-min convex sets, following the approach of tropical convexity. We introduce a max-min analogue of the tropical rank of a matrix and show that it is equal to the dimension of the associated polytope.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Viorel Nitica , Sergei Sergeev

A multidimensional optimization problem is formulated in the tropical mathematics setting as to maximize a nonlinear objective function, which is defined through a multiplicative conjugate transposition operator on vectors in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Nikolai Krivulin

We study the convex hull membership (CHM) problem in the pure exploration setting where one aims to efficiently and accurately determine if a given point lies in the convex hull of means of a finite set of distributions. We give a complete…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-22 Gang Qiao , Ambuj Tewari

We develop a novel framework to construct and analyze finite valued, multidimensional mechanisms using tropical convex geometry. We geometrically characterize incentive compatibility using cells in the tropical convex hull of the type set.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Robert Alexander Crowell , Ngoc Mai Tran

We first develop the local theory of functions on $\mathbb R^n$ defined by tropical Laurent polynomials. We study the structure of the semiring of functions, where two functions are identified when they coincide on a neighborhood of a fixed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Takaaki Ito

We consider tropical hemispaces, defined as tropically convex sets whose complements are also tropically convex, and tropical semispaces, defined as maximal tropically convex sets not containing a given point. We introduce the concept of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Ricardo D. Katz , Viorel Nitica , Sergei Sergeev

We study tropical degree bounds, stable tropical intersections, and tropical B\'ezout-type estimates through the geometry of Newton polytopes, mixed subdivisions, and lattice indices. We establish an upper bound for the tropical degree of a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Mounir Nisse

Tropical geometry has recently found several applications in the analysis of neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions. This paper presents a new look at the problem of tropical polynomial division and its application to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Ioannis Kordonis , Petros Maragos

In this paper we study the problem of maximizing the distance to a given point over an intersection of balls. It was already known that this problem can be solved in polynomial time and space if the given point is not in the convex hull of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Marius Costandin , Beniamin Costandin

Most algorithms for solving optimization problems or finding saddle points of convex-concave functions are fixed-point algorithms. In this work we consider the generic problem of finding a fixed point of an average of operators, or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Grigory Malinovsky , Dmitry Kovalev , Elnur Gasanov , Laurent Condat , Peter Richtárik

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

In the present paper, we discuss several basic properties of a class of quasiconformal close-to-convex harmonic mappings with starlike analytic part, such results as coefficient inequalities, an integral representation, a growth theorem, an…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Zhi-Gang Wang , Xin-Zhong Huang , Zhi-Hong Liu , Rahim Kargar

We study the convex hulls of reachable sets of nonlinear systems with bounded disturbances and uncertain initial conditions. Reachable sets play a critical role in control, but remain notoriously challenging to compute, and existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Thomas Lew , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone

In many applications it is important to establish if a given topological preordered space has a topology and a preorder which can be recovered from the set of continuous isotone functions. Under antisymmetry this property, also known as…

General Topology · Mathematics 2013-06-21 E. Minguzzi

In this research, we investigate a tropical principal component analysis (PCA) as a best-fit Stiefel tropical linear space to a given sample over the tropical projective torus for its dimensionality reduction and visualization. Especially,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Keiji Miura , Ruriko Yoshida