A-Discriminants for Complex Exponents, and Counting Real Isotopy Types

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Authors: J. Maurice Rojas, Korben Rusek 

Publication date: 11 December 2016

Abstract: We extend the definition of $mathcalA$-discriminant varieties, and Kapranov's parametrization of $mathcalA$-discriminant varieties, to complex exponents. As an application, we study the special case where $mathcalA$ is a fixed real $nimes(n+3)$ matrix whose columns form the spectrum of an $n$-variate exponential sum $g$ with fixed sign vector for its coefficients: We prove that the number of possible isotopy types for the real zero set of $g$ is $O(n^2)$. The best previous upper bound was $2^{O(n^4)}$. Along the way, we also show that the singular loci of our generalized $mathcalA$-discriminants are images of low-degree algebraic sets under certain analytic maps.

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