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We introduce a generalization of tropical polyhedra able to express both strict and non-strict inequalities. Such inequalities are handled by means of a semiring of germs (encoding infinitesimal perturbations). We develop a tropical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Xavier Allamigeon , Uli Fahrenberg , Stéphane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz , Axel Legay

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

The geometric median as well as the Frechet mean of points in an Hadamard space are important in both theory and applications. Surprisingly, no algorithms for their computation are hitherto known. To address this issue, we use a split…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Miroslav Bacak

Tropical polyhedra have been recently used to represent disjunctive invariants in static analysis. To handle larger instances, tropical analogues of classical linear programming results need to be developed. This motivation leads us to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Stephane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz , Sergei Sergeev

In this study, we consider the realm of covariance matrices in machine learning, particularly focusing on computing Fr\'echet means on the manifold of symmetric positive definite matrices, commonly referred to as Karcher or geometric means.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-06 Florent Bouchard , Ammar Mian , Malik Tiomoko , Guillaume Ginolhac , Frédéric Pascal

We consider a discrete best approximation problem formulated in the framework of tropical algebra, which deals with the theory and applications of algebraic systems with idempotent operations. Given a set of samples of input and output of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Nikolai Krivulin

As a new concept tropical halfspaces are introduced to the (linear algebraic) geometry of the tropical semiring (R,min,+). This yields exterior descriptions of the tropical polytopes that were recently studied by Develin and Sturmfels in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Joswig

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 consider discrete best approximation problems in the setting of tropical algebra, which is concerned with the theory and application of algebraic systems with idempotent operations. Given a set of input--output pairs of an unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Nikolai Krivulin

We consider optimization problems that are formulated and solved in the framework of tropical mathematics. The problems consist in minimizing or maximizing functionals defined on vectors of finite-dimensional semimodules over idempotent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Nikolai Krivulin

Tropical mathematics redefines the rules of arithmetic by replacing addition with taking a maximum, and by replacing multiplication with addition. After briefly discussing a tropical version of linear algebra, we study polynomials build…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Ralph Morrison

Fermat-Weber points with respect to an asymmetric tropical distance function are studied. It turns out that they correspond to the optimal solutions of a transportation problem. The results are applied to obtain a new method for computing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Andrei Comăneci , Michael Joswig

Tropical polyhedra seem to play a central role in static analysis of softwares. These tropical geometrical objects play also a central role in parity games especially mean payoff games and energy games. And determining if an initial state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 L. Truffet

We study how geometric properties of tropical convex sets and polytopes, which are of interest in many application areas, manifest themselves in their algebraic structure as modules over the tropical semiring. Our main results establish a…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Zur Izhakian , Marianne Johnson , Mark Kambites

We discuss the tropical analogues of several basic questions of convex duality. In particular, the polar of a tropical polyhedral cone represents the set of linear inequalities that its elements satisfy. We characterize the extreme rays of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Xavier Allamigeon , Stephane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz

We study the problem of optimal transport in tropical geometry and define the Wasserstein-$p$ distances in the continuous metric measure space setting of the tropical projective torus. We specify the tropical metric -- a combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Wonjun Lee , Wuchen Li , Bo Lin , Anthea Monod

A suitable measure for the similarity of shapes represented by parameterized curves or surfaces is the Fr\'echet distance. Whereas efficient algorithms are known for computing the Fr\'echet distance of polygonal curves, the same problem for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Helmut Alt , Maike Buchin

We study a generalization of the Fr\'echet mean on metric spaces, which we call $\phi$-means. Our generalization is indexed by a convex function $\phi$. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for $\phi$-means to be finite and provide a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Andrea Aveni , Sayan Mukherjee

Tropicalisation (with trivial coefficients) is a process that turns a polynomial equation into a combinatorial predicate on subsets of the set of variables. We show that for each minuscule representation of a simple reductive group, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Kieran Calvert , Aram Dermenjian , Alex Fink , Ben Smith

A realisation of a graph in the plane as a bar-joint framework is rigid if there are finitely many other realisations, up to isometries, with the same edge lengths. Each of these finitely-many realisations can be seen as a solution to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Oliver Clarke , Sean Dewar , Daniel Green Tripp , James Maxwell , Anthony Nixon , Yue Ren , Ben Smith