Tropical geometry and its applications
Grigory Mikhalkin
Université de Genève, Switzerland
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Abstract
From a formal perspective tropical geometry can be viewed as a branch of geometry manipulating with certain piecewise-linear objects that take over the rôle of classical algebraic varieties. This talk outlines some basic notions of this area and surveys some of its applications for the problems in classical (real and complex) geometry.