Tropical cycles and Chow polytopes (Q1943339)

The Chow polytope Ch(X) is a common generalization of the Newton polytope of a hypersurface, and of the matroid polytope of a flat in the projective space. It carries information on asymptotic behavior of X under the action of the complex torus of and depends only on tropicalisation of X. The paper extends the definition of Chow polytope to abstract tropical cycles in a tropicalised toric varieties. The author gives an example of tropical hypersurface with the same Chow polytope, i.e., the map from varieties to Chow polytopes is not injective. As an application of developed technique the author proves that all tropical varieties of degree one come as Bergman complexes of matroids. The paper is well structured and all definitions and results are illustrates by good examples.