Research report 2010 - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

Geometry in the tropical limit

Authors
Ilia Itenberg, Grigory Mikhalkin
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn
Summary
Complex algebraic varieties become easy piecewise-linear objects after passing to the so-called tropical limit. Geometry of these limiting objects is known as tropical geometry. In this survey we look at a few simple examples of correspondence principle between classical and tropical geometries.

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