Tropical surface singularities (Q1930542)

A point \(p\) in a tropical surface \(S\subseteq\mathbb{R}^3\) is defined to be singular if there is an algebraic surface \(\widetilde{S}\), defined over the Puiseux-series with coefficients in \(\mathbb{C}\), whose tropicalization is \(S\) and which is singular at a point \(\widetilde{p}\in\widetilde{S}\) that tropicalizes to \(p\). Note that there can be different singular surfaces tropicalizing to a given tropical surface. Singularities of tropical surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) are studied. Singular tropical surfaces of maximal--dimensional geometric type are completely classified. They can generically have only finitely many singular points. Singular points must be either vertices, or generalized midpoints and barycenters of certain faces of singular tropical surfaces.