The moduli space of n tropically collinear points in Rd.

Mike Develin

Collectanea Mathematica (2005)

  • Volume: 56, Issue: 1, page 1-19
  • ISSN: 0010-0757

Abstract

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The tropical semiring (R, min, +) has enjoyed a recent renaissance, owing to its connections to mathematical biology as well as optimization and algebraic geometry. In this paper, we investigate the space of labeled n-point configurations lying on a tropical line in d-space, which is interpretable as the space of n-species phylogenetic trees. This is equivalent to the space of n x d matrices of tropical rank two, a simplicial complex. We prove that this simplicial complex is shellable for dimension d = 3 and compute is homology in this case, conjecturing that this complex is shellable in general. We also investigate the space of d x n matrices of Barvinok rank two, a subcomplex directly related to optimization, giving a complete description of this subcomplex in the case d = 3.

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Develin, Mike. "The moduli space of n tropically collinear points in Rd.." Collectanea Mathematica 56.1 (2005): 1-19. <http://eudml.org/doc/41817>.

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