Matroid polytopes, nested sets and Bergman fans (Q815188)

This paper is concerned with the tropical variety defined by a system of linear equations with constant coefficients. It turns out, that this variety is the Bergman fan of an associated matroid. After discussing the relation between Bergman fan and nested set complexes of (arbitrary) lattices, the authors refine a result due to Ardila-Klivans in relation with triangulations of Bergman complexes. A relation of combinatorial results and algebraic geometry (in terms of complements of arrangements of hyperplanes in the complex space) is also described.