Andrew J Chan (Warwick)
Computing Tropical Varieties

Tropical geometry can be thought of as a piecewise linear approximation to algebraic geometry where algebraic varieties are replaced by tropical varieties. It is useful as they share many of the same invariants but the tropical variety is often easier to work with as it has a nice polyhedral structure. The current methods to compute tropical varieties [BJSST] use connectedness to walk around this polyhedral structure with the construction of a tropical curve a key step in this walk. In this talk, we will investigate an alternative method of computing tropical curves by recovering them from coordinate projections.