Skip to content

The Newton Polytope of the Implicit Equation

Bernd Sturmfels, Jenia Tevelev, Josephine Yu

math.COarXiv:math/0607368

Abstract

We apply tropical geometry to study the image of a map defined by Laurent polynomials with generic coefficients. If this image is a hypersurface then our approach gives a construction of its Newton polytope.

Create a lesson