Tropical convexity via cellular resolutions

  • Authors:
  • Florian Block;Josephine Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität München, Zentrum Mathematik, Garching, Germany 85748;Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley 94720

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The tropical convex hull of a finite set of points in tropical projective space has a natural structure of a cellular free resolution. Therefore, methods from computational commutative algebra can be used to compute tropical convex hulls. Tropical cyclic polytopes are also presented.