Tropical Linear Spaces

Details Tropical Linear Spaces Tropical Linear Spaces

2004-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/math/0410455v1

Mathematics

Combinatorics

40 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

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 dualization and transverse intersection to be constructible. Our main result that all constructible tropical linear spaces have the same f-vector and are ``series-parallel''. We conjecture that this f-vector is maximal for all tropical linear spaces with equality precisely for the series-parallel tropical linear spaces. We present many partial results towards this conjecture. In addition we relate tropical linear spaces to linear spaces defined over power series fields and give many examples and counter-examples illustrating aspects of this relationship. We describe a family of particularly nice series-parallel linear spaces, which we term tree spaces, that realize the conjectured maximal f-vector and are constructed in a manner similar to the cyclic polytopes.

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