Discriminant and Singularities of Logarithmic Gauss Map, Examples and Application
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Publication:6231165
arXiv1202.4659MaRDI QIDQ6231165FDOQ6231165
Authors: Bernd Martin, Dmitry Pochekutov 
Publication date: 21 February 2012
Abstract: The study of hypersurfaces in a torus leads to the beautiful zoo of amoebas and their contours, whose possible configurations are seen from combinatorial data. There is a deep connection to the logarithmic Gauss map and its critical points. The theory has a lot of applications in many directions. In this report we recall basic notions and results from the theory of amoebas, show some connection to algebraic singularity theory and discuss some consequences from the well known classification of singularities to this subject. Moreover, we have tried to compute some examples using the computer algebra system SINGULAR and discuss different possibilities and their effectivity to compute the critical points. Here we meet an essential obstacle: Relevant examples need real or even rational solutions, which are found only by chance. We have tried to unify different views to that subject.
Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Real algebraic and real-analytic geometry (14P99) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-04)
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