Signs of the leading coefficients of the resultant

DOI10.1007/S00039-017-0393-ZMaRDI QIDQ521602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Esterov, Arina A. Arkhipova Arkhipova

Publication date 11 April 2017

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07060

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic geometrymixed volumestropical geometryconvex geometryNewton polyhedraresultants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Mixed volumes and related topics in convex geometry (52A39)

Abstract: We construct a certain $F_2$-valued analogue of the mixed volume of lattice polytopes. This 2-mixed volume cannot be defined as a polarization of any kind of an additive measure, or characterized by any kind of its monotonicity properties, because neither of the two makes sense over $F_2$. In this sense, the convex-geometric nature of the 2-mixed volume remains unclear. On the other hand, the 2-mixed volume seems to be no less natural and useful than the classical mixed volume -- in particular, it also plays an important role in algebraic geometry. As an illustration of this role, we obtain a closed-form expression in terms of the 2-mixed volume to compute the signs of the leading coefficients of the resultant, which were by now explicitly computed only for some special cases.

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