A tropical toolkit

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2008.04.003MaRDI QIDQ1004603zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 11 March 2009

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610878

degenerations intersection theory toric varieties tropical geometry tropical varieties

Schemes and morphisms (14A15) Parametrization (Chow and Hilbert schemes) (14C05) Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17)

Abstract: We give an introduction to Tropical Geometry and prove some results in Tropical Intersection Theory. The first part of this paper is an introduction to tropical geometry aimed at researchers in Algebraic Geometry from the point of view of degenerations of varieties using projective not-necessarily-normal toric varieties. The second part is a foundational account of tropical intersection theory with proofs of some new theorems relating it to classical intersection theory. Revised version includes many corrections, more examples, and improved exposition.

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The paper is a brief and transparent manual for a number of interrelated subjects: toric geometry (Section 4), secondary fans (Section 5), tropical varieties (Section 6), tropical intersection theory and its relation to the classical one (Sections 8, 9), with some applications (e.g. a generalization of an argument from [\textit{A. Dickenstein}, \textit{E. M. Feichtner} and \textit{B. Sturmfels}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 20, No. 4, 1111--1133 (2007; Zbl 1166.14033)]). The exposition features many examples and is suitable for any reader with background in algebraic geometry.

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