Enumeration of complex and real surfaces via tropical geometry (Q1707427)

This article provides a tropical approach to enumeration of singular complex and real hypersurfaces in toric varieties. The authors establish a correspondence theorem between singular tropical and algebraic hypersurfaces and demonstrate a 3-dimensional version of the classical lattice path algorithm of Mikhalkin, which enumerates singular tropical surfaces passing through an appropriate configuration of points in \(\mathbb{R}^3\). As application the authors obtain a lower bound to the maximal possible number of real singular hypersurfaces in a generic real pencil.