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Tropical differential equations

Symbolic Computation 2018-11-08 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Tropical differential equations are introduced and an algorithm is designed which tests solvability of a system of tropical linear differential equations within the complexity polynomial in the size of the system and in its coefficients. Moreover, we show that there exists a minimal solution, and the algorithm constructs it (in case of solvability). This extends a similar complexity bound established for tropical linear systems. In case of tropical linear differential systems in one variable a polynomial complexity algorithm for testing its solvability is designed. We prove also that the problem of solvability of a system of tropical non-linear differential equations in one variable is NPNP-hard, and this problem for arbitrary number of variables belongs to NPNP. Similar to tropical algebraic equations, a tropical differential equation expresses the (necessary) condition on the dominant term in the issue of solvability of a differential equation in power series.

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@article{arxiv.1502.08010,
  title  = {Tropical differential equations},
  author = {Dima Grigoriev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.08010},
  year   = {2018}
}
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