Essentials of tropical combinatorics
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Essentials of tropical combinatorics
(Graduate studies in mathematics, 219)
American Mathematical Society, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-391) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The goal of this book is to explain, at the graduate student level, connections between tropical geometry and optimization. Building bridges between these two subject areas is fruitful in two ways. Through tropical geometry optimization algorithms become applicable to questions in algebraic geometry. Conversely, looking at topics in optimization through the tropical geometry lens adds an additional layer of structure. The author covers contemporary research topics that are relevant for applications such as phylogenetics, neural networks, combinatorial auctions, game theory, and computational complexity. This self-contained book grew out of several courses given at Technische Universitat Berlin and elsewhere, and the main prerequisite for the reader is a basic knowledge in polytope theory. It contains a good number of exercises, many examples, beautiful figures, as well as explicit tools for computations using $\texttt{polymake}$.
Table of Contents
Tropical hypersurfaces
Fields of power series and tropicalization
Graph algorithms and polyhedra
Products of tropical polynomials and the Cayley trick
Tropical convexity
Combinatorics of tropical polytopes
Tropical half-spaces
Tropical linear programming
Feasibility and mean payoffs
Matroids and tropical linear spaces
Geometric combinatorics
Computational complexity
Using $\texttt{polymake}$
Hints to selected problems
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"