Idempotent tropical matrices and finite metric spaces

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2013-0034MaRDI QIDQ5170686zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Kambites, Marianne Johnson

Publication date 24 July 2014

Published in advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2480

zbMATH Keywords

finite metric spaceidempotent tropical matrixresiduation operatortropical polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semirings (16Y60) General structure theory for semigroups (20M10) Other groups of matrices (20H99)

Abstract: There is a well known correspondence between the triangle inequality for a distance function on a finite set, and idempotency of an associated matrix over the tropical semiring. Recent research has shed new light on the structure (algebraic, combinatorial and geometric) of tropical idempotents, and in this paper we explore the consequences of this for the metric geometry of tropical polytopes. We prove, for example, that every n-point metric space is realised by the Hilbert projective metric on the vertices of a pure n-dimensional tropical polytope in tropical n-space. More generally, every n-point asymmetric distance function is realised by a residuation operator on the vertices of such a polytope. In the symmetric case, we show that the maximal group of tropical matrices containing the idempotent associated to a metric space is a direct product of the real numbers with the isometry group of the space; it follows that every direct product of a finite group with the real numbers arises as a maximal subgroup of a sufficiently large finitary full tropical matrix semigroup. In the process we also prove some new results about tropical idempotent matrices, and note some semigroup-theoretic consequences which may be of independent interest.

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