A tropical approach to secant dimensions (Q2457280)

The author gives a lower bound for the dimension of the joins of \(s\) projective varieties if each variety has a tropical description (toric embeddings). He uses tropical geometry and gives a very helpful translation of secant variety in the tropical language. He shows how his approach covers some Segre-Veronese embeddings and the famous Alexander-Hirschowitz theorem for Veronese embeddings. He hopes to apply his approach to other Veronese embeddings of minimal orbits of algebraic group actions. On this topic he announces a forthcoming joint work with Karin Baur on the secant dimensions of all equivariant embeddings of the full flag (point, line) of \(\mathbb {P}^2\).