
arXiv: 1310.2012
Polytropes are both ordinary and tropical polytopes. We show that tropical types of polytropes in $\mathbb{TP}^{n-1}$ are in bijection with cones of a certain Gröbner fan $\mathcal{GF}_n$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n^2 - n}$ restricted to a small cone called the polytrope region. These in turn are indexed by compatible sets of bipartite and triangle binomials. Geometrically, on the polytrope region, $\mathcal{GF}_n$ is the refinement of two fans: the fan of linearity of the polytrope map appeared in \cite{tran.combi}, and the bipartite binomial fan. This gives two algorithms for enumerating tropical types of polytropes: one via a general Gröbner fan software such as \textsf{gfan}, and another via checking compatibility of systems of bipartite and triangle binomials. We use these algorithms to compute types of full-dimensional polytropes for $n = 4$, and maximal polytropes for $n = 5$.
Improved exposition, fixed error in reporting the number maximal polytropes for $n = 6$, fixed error in definition of bipartite binomials
polytropes, Integer programming, Combinatorial aspects of tropical varieties, Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry), FOS: Mathematics, Mathematics - Combinatorics, Gröbner bases, Combinatorics (math.CO), tropical polytopes, integer programming, combinatorial types
polytropes, Integer programming, Combinatorial aspects of tropical varieties, Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry), FOS: Mathematics, Mathematics - Combinatorics, Gröbner bases, Combinatorics (math.CO), tropical polytopes, integer programming, combinatorial types
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