Tropical convexity in Riesz spaces (Q2401578): Difference between revisions

Generally speaking, tropical mathematics asks classical questions on classical objects, but with arithmetic done over an idempotent algebra. An example is the max-plus algebra \((\mathbb{R}\cup\{+\infty\},\oplus,\odot)\), with tropical addition \(a \oplus b := \max\{a,b\}\), and tropical multiplication \(a \odot b := a + b\). Variations include min-plus, max-times, min-times algebras, over \(\mathbb{R}\) or over a field with two elements (such as \(\{0,+\infty\}\) for max-plus. Tropical mathematics has found applications in many areas. In optimization, it is a linearization tool. Many problems in queueing theory, game theory and economics are linear in the tropical algebra, making it easier to characterizations solutions or algorithms. Furthermore, it has a rich connection to algebraic geometry, matroids and polytopes. For this reason, many areas of mathematics have been `tropicalized'. This work develops the tropical analogue of tropical convexity for infinite dimensional spaces, and give applications to mathematical economics.