Tropical Combinatorics
Tropical Combinatorics
Tropical Combinatorics
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tropical semi-module (R d , ⊕, ⊙)<br />
componentwise addition<br />
tropical scalar multiplication<br />
<strong>Tropical</strong> Hypersurfaces<br />
Definition<br />
tropical hypersurface T (F) := vanishing locus of (multi-variate)<br />
tropical polynomial F<br />
Example<br />
F(x) = (7 ⊙ x ⊙3 ) ⊕ (3 ⊙ x) ⊕ 4<br />
T (F) = {−2, 1} ⊂ R 1<br />
(−2,1)<br />
−2 1<br />
7 + 3x<br />
(1,4)<br />
3 + x<br />
4