Amoebas of genus at most one (Q390769)

Let \(f\in\mathbb{C}[z_1^{\pm 1}, \ldots, z_n^{\pm 1}]\) be a Laurent polynomial. As introduced in [\textit{I. M. Gelfand} et al., Discriminants, resultants, and multidimensional determinants. Mathematics: Theory \& Applications. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser (1994; Zbl 0827.14036)], the amoeba \(\mathcal{A}(f)\) of \(f\) is the image of its zero set under the map \((\mathbb{C}^\ast)\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^n\) given by sending each coordinate to its logarithmic absolute value. The purpose of this paper is to study the amoebas of Laurent polynomials \(f\) whose Newton polytope \(\text{Newt}(f)\) is a simplex and contains at most one point in its interior. The condition on the \(\text{Newt}(f)\) hereby corresponds to the amoeba having at most one bounded component in its complement. In their main results the authors exhibit various upper and lower bounds (in the coefficients of \(f\)) for the existence of such a bounded component in the complement of \(\mathcal{A}(f)\), which can be interpreted as geometric conditions on the parameter space of all amoebas (again with parameters being the coefficients of \(f\)). Moreover, the authors also consider the special case where the inner point of \(\text{Newt}(f)\) is its barycenter. In this case they provide a complete classification of the space of amoebas and, in particular, show that the subspace of those polynomials whose amoebas have exactly one bounded component in their complement is path-connected, thereby proving a special case of a conjecture of Rullgård.