MenuStudent Working Seminar in Discrete Mathematics
Date: September 23, 2014
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: BLOC 203
Speaker: Timo de Wolff, Texas A&M University
Title: Introduction to Tropical Geometry
Abstract: In the first part of this Introduction to Tropical Geometry we define the tropical semiring and introduce tropical varieties. We discuss its relation to Newton polytopes and regular subdivisions. With the tropical Bezout Theorem we give some initial outlook for the capabilities of the “tropical world”. Finally, we show how “classical” polynomials and their varieties can be “tropicalized” – via valutions as well as via amoebas and Maslov Dequantization – culminating in Kapranov’s Theorem.
