The Image of a Tropical Linear Space
Given a tropical linear space $L \subseteq \mathbb{T}^n$ and a matrix $A \in \mathbb{T}^{m \times n}$, the image $AL$ of $L$ under $A$ is typically not a tropical linear space. We introduce a tropical linear space $\text{tropim}_{A}(L)$, the tropical image, containing $AL$. We show under mild hypotheses that $\text{tropim}_{A}(L)$ is realizable if $L$ is and apply the tropical image to construct the stable sum of two tropical linear spaces without a disjoint pair of bases.
Authors
- Joshua Mundinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7826-635X)
Institutions
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
- Published
- 2025-03-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.37236/13096
- Primary Topic
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00