Nearest points on toric varieties

DOI10.7146/MATH.SCAND.A-101478MaRDI QIDQ4640270zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Martin Helmer, Bernd Sturmfels

Publication date 17 May 2018

Published in MATHEMATICA SCANDINAVICA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06544, http://www.mscand.dk/article/view/101478

zbMATH Keywords

Euler obstructionspolytopestoric varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Effectivity, complexity and computational aspects of algebraic geometry (14Q20)

Abstract: We determine the Euclidean distance degree of a projective toric variety. This extends the formula of Matsui and Takeuchi for the degree of the $A$-discriminant in terms of Euler obstructions. Our primary goal is the development of reliable algorithmic tools for computing the points on a real toric variety that are closest to a given data point.

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(15)

• Numerical polar calculus and cohomology of line bundles
• The maximum likelihood degree of toric varieties
• The distance function from a real algebraic variety
• A Morse theoretic approach to non-isolated singularities and applications to optimization
• The Euclidean distance degree
• A combinatorial description of dual defects of toric varieties
• Polar degrees and closest points in codimension two
• The Euclidean distance degree of an algebraic variety
• Euclidean distance degree and limit points in a Morsification
• Symbol alphabets from the Landau singular locus
• Linear optimization on varieties and Chern-Mather classes
• Principal Landau determinants
• Extraction of tori from minimal point sets
• Osculating geometry and higher-order distance loci
• Applications of singularity theory in applied algebraic geometry and algebraic statistics

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Uses Software

• Macaulay2
• Bertini

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