Dimension computations for tropical determinantal varieties and prevarieties

Upper bounds on Betti numbers of tropical prevarieties

We prove upper bounds on the sum of Betti numbers of tropical prevarieties in dense and sparse settings. In the dense setting the bound is in terms of the volume of Minkowski sum of Newton polytopes of defining tropical polynomials, or, alternatively, via the maximal degree of these polynomials. In sparse setting, the bound involves the number of the monomials.

Bounds on the number of connected components for tropical prevarieties

For a tropical prevariety in ${R}^n$ given by a system of $k$ tropical polynomials in $n$ variables with degrees at most $d$, we prove that its number of connected components is less than ${k+7n-1 \choose 3n} \cdot \frac{d^{3n}}{k+n+1}$. On a number of $0$-dimensional connected components a better bound ${k+4n \choose 3n} \cdot \frac{d^n}{k+n+1}$ is obtained, which extends the Bezout bound due to B.~Sturmfels from the the case $k=n$ to an arbitrary $k\ge n$. Also we show that the latter bound is close to sharp, in particular, the number of connected components can depend on $k$.

Computing Tropical Prevarieties in Parallel

The computation of the tropical prevariety is the first step in the application of polyhedral methods to compute positive dimensional solution sets of polynomial systems. In particular, pretropisms are candidate leading exponents for the power series developments of the solutions. The computation of the power series may start as soon as one pretropism is available, so our parallel computation of the tropical prevariety has an application in a pipelined solver. We present a parallel implementation of dynamic enumeration. Our first distributed memory implementation with forked processes achieved…

Complexity of tropical and min-plus linear prevarieties

A tropical (or min-plus) semiring is a set $\mathbb{Z}$ (or $\mathbb{Z \cup \{\infty\}}$) endowed with two operations: $\oplus$, which is just usual minimum, and $\odot$, which is usual addition. In tropical algebra the vector $x$ is a solution to a polynomial $g_1(x) \oplus g_2(x) \oplus...\oplus g_k(x)$, where $g_i(x)$'s are tropical monomials, if the minimum in $\min_i(g_{i}(x))$ is attained at least twice. In min-plus algebra solutions of systems of equations of the form $g_1(x)\oplus...\oplus g_k(x) = h_1(x)\oplus...\oplus h_l(x)$ are studied. In this paper we consider computational probl…

Tropical Positivity and Determinantal Varieties

We initiate the study of positive-tropical generators as positive analogues of the concept of tropical bases. Applying this to the tropicalization of determinantal varieties, we develop criteria for characterizing their positive part. We focus on the study of low-rank matrices, in particular matrices of rank 2 and 3. Moreover, in the case square-matrices of corank 1, we fully classify the signed tropicalization of the determinantal variety, even beyond the positive part.

对称行列式簇的实与正热带化

Real and Positive Tropicalizations of Symmetric Determinantal Varieties

本文研究了Puiseux级数上低秩对称矩阵簇的实与正热带化，证明了实与复热带化在秩二和余秩一情形下一致，并揭示了Speyer和Williams提出的两种正热带化概念在相同条件下的异同。