Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 15, Issue 3, May 2008 pp. 543-562.

Elimination Theory for Tropical Varieties

Authors: Bernd Sturmfels (1) and Jenia Tevelev (2)
Author institution: University of California, Berkeley (1) and University of Massachusetts (2)

Summary: Tropical algebraic geometry offers new tools for elimination theory and implicitization. We determine the tropicalization of the image of a subvariety of an algebraic torus under any homomorphism from that torus to another torus.

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