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We define tropical analogues of the notions of linear space and Plucker coordinate and study their combinatorics. We introduce tropical analogues of intersection and dualization and define a tropical linear space built by repeated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David E Speyer

We consider the question of when points in tropical affine space uniquely determine a tropical hypersurface. We introduce a notion of multiplicity of points so that this question may be meaningful even if some of the points coincide. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Drew Johnson

Cosmological polytopes of graphs are a geometric tool in physics to study wavefunctions for cosmological models whose Feynman diagram is given by the graph. After their recent introduction by Arkani-Hamed, Benincasa and Postnikov the focus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Aenne Benjes , Kamillo Ferry , Benjamin Schröter

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

Cellular resolutions are a technique for constructing resolutions of monomial ideals by giving a cell complex labeled by monomials, or more generally, by monomial modules. This \verb|Macaulay2| package allows us to work with cellular…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Aleksandra Sobieska , Jay Yang

Tropical ideals, introduced in arXiv:1609.03838, define subschemes of tropical toric varieties. We prove that the top-dimensional parts of their varieties are balanced polyhedral complexes of the same dimension as the ideal. This means that…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Diane Maclagan , Felipe Rincón

In tropical algebraic geometry, the solution sets of polynomial equations are piecewise-linear. We introduce the tropical variety of a polynomial ideal, and we identify it with a polyhedral subcomplex of the Grobner fan. The tropical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Speyer , Bernd Sturmfels

One can iteratively obtain a free resolution of any monomial ideal $I$ by considering the mapping cone of the map of complexes associated to adding one generator at a time. Herzog and Takayama have shown that this procedure yields a minimal…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Anton Dochtermann , Fatemeh Mohammadi

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 max-plus or tropical analogue of the notion of polar: the polar of a cone represents the set of linear inequalities satisfied by its elements. We establish an analogue of the bipolar theorem, which characterizes all the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-23 Stéphane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz

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

Let $\mathbf{v}_1,\ldots,\mathbf{v}_m$ be points in a metric space with distance $d$, and let $w_1,\ldots,w_m$ be positive real weights. The weighted Fermat-Weber points are those points $\mathbf{x}$ which minimize $\sum w_i d(\mathbf{v}_i,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Shelby Cox , Mark Curiel

We consider the multilinear polytope defined as the convex hull of the feasible region of a linearized binary polynomial optimization problem. We define a relaxation in an extended space for this polytope, which we refer to as the complete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Alberto Del Pia , Aida Khajavirad

Tropical geometry is a relatively recent field in mathematics created as a simplified model for certain problems in algebraic geometry. We introduce the definition of abstract and planar tropical curves as well as their properties,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Stanley Wang

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

We construct moduli spaces of rational covers of an arbitrary smooth tropical curve in R^r as tropical varieties. They are contained in the balanced fan parametrizing tropical stable maps of the appropriate degree to R^r. The weights of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Andreas Gathmann , Hannah Markwig , Dennis Ochse

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

Tropical varieties are polyhedral shadows of classical varieties. The purpose of these expository notes is to explain the origin of this polyhedral complex structure from the perspective of Gr\"obner bases. To appear in the proceedings of…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2013-02-22 Diane Maclagan

A split of a polytope is a (necessarily regular) subdivision with exactly two maximal cells. A polytope is totally splittable if each triangulation (without additional vertices) is a common refinement of splits. This paper establishes a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Sven Herrmann , Michael Joswig

This work tackles the problem of characterizing and understanding the decision boundaries of neural networks with piecewise linear non-linearity activations. We use tropical geometry, a new development in the area of algebraic geometry, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Motasem Alfarra , Adel Bibi , Hasan Hammoud , Mohamed Gaafar , Bernard Ghanem