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Tropical Computations in polymake

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Abstract

We give an overview of recently implemented polymake features for computations in tropical geometry. The main focus is on explicit examples rather than technical explanations. Our computations employ tropical hypersurfaces, moduli of tropical plane curves, tropical linear spaces and Grassmannians, lines on tropical cubic surfaces as well as intersection rings of matroids.

Keywords

Mathematical software Tropical hypersurfaces Tropical linear spaces 

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14-04 (14T05 14Q99 52-04) 
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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Elizabeth Baldwin and Diane Maclagan for many helpful suggestions on improving this paper.

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  1. 1.Institut für MathematikTechnische Universität BerlinBerlinGermany

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