Geodesic
Idempotent semigroups and tropical algebraic sets
Journal of the European Mathematical Society, Tome 14 (2012) no. 2, pp. 489-520

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The tropical semifield, i.e., the real numbers enhanced by the operations of addition and maximum, serves as a base of tropical mathematics. Addition is an abelian group operation, whereas the maximum defines an idempotent semigroup structure. We address the question of the geometry of idempotent semigroups, in particular, tropical algebraic sets carrying the structure of a commutative idempotent semigroup. We show that commutative idempotent semigroups are contractible, that systems of tropical polynomials, formed from univariate monomials, define subsemigroups with respect to coordinate-wise tropical addition (maximum); and, finally, we prove that the subsemigroups in the Euclidean space which are either tropical hypersurfaces, or tropical curves in the plane or in the three-space have the above polynomial description.
DOI : 10.4171/jems/309
Classification : 14-XX, 06-XX, 12-XX, 20-XX
Keywords: Tropical geometry, polyhedral complexes, tropical polynomials, idempotent semigroups, simple polynomials 
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Zur Izhakian; Eugenii Shustin. Idempotent semigroups and tropical algebraic sets. Journal of the European Mathematical Society, Tome 14 (2012) no. 2, pp. 489-520. doi: 10.4171/jems/309

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