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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

We revisit the Universal Approximation Theorem(UAT) through the lens of the tropical geometry of neural networks and introduce a constructive, geometry-aware initialization for sigmoidal multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs). Tropical geometry…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Yi-Shan Chu , Yueh-Cheng Kuo

A "tropical ideal" is an ideal in the idempotent semiring of tropical polynomials that is also, degree by degree, a tropical linear space. We introduce a construction based on transversal matroids that canonically extends any principal…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Alex Fink , Jeffrey Giansiracusa , Noah Giansiracusa , Joshua Mundinger

Tropicalizations form a bridge between algebraic and convex geometry. We generalize basic results from tropical geometry which are well-known for special ground fields to arbitrary non-archimedean valued fields. To achieve this, we develop…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Walter Gubler

The goal of this paper is to make a connection between tropical geometry, representations of quantum affine algebras, and scattering amplitudes in physics. The connection allows us to study important and difficult questions in these areas:…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Nick Early , Jian-Rong Li

In this article we study the tropicalization of the Hilbert scheme and its suitability as a parameter space for tropical varieties. We prove that the points of the tropicalization of the Hilbert scheme have a tropical variety naturally…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Daniele Alessandrini , Michele Nesci

This paper lays out a foundation for a theory of supertropical algebraic geometry, relying on commutative $\nu$-algebra. To this end, the paper introduces $\mathfrak{q}$-congruences, carried over $\nu$-semirings, whose distinguished ghost…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2019-01-24 Zur Izhakian

A very brief introduction to tropical and idempotent mathematics is presented. Applications to classical mechanics and geometry are especially examined.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-05-11 G. L. Litvinov

We study algebraic and combinatorial aspects of (classical) projections of $m$-dimensional tropical varieties onto $(m+1)$-dimensional planes. Building upon the work of Sturmfels, Tevelev, and Yu on tropical elimination as well as the work…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-23 Kerstin Hept , Thorsten Theobald

We introduce a scheme-theoretic enrichment of the principal objects of tropical geometry. Using a category of semiring schemes, we construct tropical hypersurfaces as schemes over idempotent semirings such as $\mathbb{T} = (\mathbb{R}\cup…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Jeffrey Giansiracusa , Noah Giansiracusa

In this note we study the relationship between ideals and congruences of the tropical polynomial and Laurent polynomial semirings. We show that the variety of a non-zero prime ideal of the tropical (Laurent) polynomial semiring consists of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Dániel Joó , Kalina Mincheva

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

Tropical ideals are a class of ideals in the tropical polynomial semiring that combinatorially abstracts the possible collections of supports of all polynomials in an ideal over a field. We study zero-dimensional tropical ideals I with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Nicholas Anderson , Felipe Rincón

Enumerative algebraic geometry deals with problems of counting geometric objects defined algebraically, An important class of enumerative problems is that of counting curves: given a class of curves in some projective variety defined by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Yaniv Ganor

We introduce the notion of tropical defects, certificates that a system of polynomial equations is not a tropical basis, and provide two algorithms for finding them in affine spaces of complementary dimension to the zero set. We use these…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Paul Görlach , Yue Ren , Jeff Sommars

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

Albuquerque and Majid have shown how to view Clifford algebras $\cl_{p,q}$ as twisted group rings whereas Chernov has observed that Clifford algebras can be viewed as images of group algebras of certain 2-groups modulo an ideal generated by…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Rafal Ablamowicz

We present applications of tropical geometry to some integrable piecewise-linear maps, based on the lecture given by one of the authors (R. I.) at the workshop "Tropical Geometry and Integrable Systems" (University of Glasgow, July 2011),…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-02 Rei Inoue , Shinsuke Iwao

Tropical geometry is sensitive to embeddings of algebraic varieties inside toric varieties. The purpose of this paper is to advertise tropical modifications as a tool to locally repair bad embeddings of plane curves, allowing the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Maria Angelica Cueto , Hannah Markwig

In this paper we present two intrinsic algebraic definitions of tropical variety motivated by the classical Zariski correspondence, one utilizing the algebraic structure of the coordinate semiring of an affine supertropical algebraic set,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Zur Izhakian , Louis Rowen