Real algebraic varieties close to smooth tropical limits

Nom de l'orateur
Johannes Rau
Etablissement de l'orateur
Universidad de los Andes
Date et heure de l'exposé
Lieu de l'exposé
Salle Éole

This talk is based on joint work with Kris Shaw and Arthur Renaudineau. I will present a combinatorial setup, based on smooth tropical varieties and real phase structures, which after "unfolding" produces a certain class of PL-manifolds. We have two motivations in mind: Firstly, in generalisation of Viro's combinatorial patchwoking to arbitrary codimension, the arising PL-geometries can be used to describe the topology of real algebraic varieties close to the tropical limit. Secondly, even if not "realisable" by real algebraic varieties, real phase structures provide a geometric framework for combinatorial structures such as oriented matroids.