Tropical convexity in location problems

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Autore principale: Comăneci, Andrei
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contents We investigate location problems whose optimum lies in the tropical convex hull of the input points. Firstly, we study geodesically star-convex sets under the asymmetric tropical distance and introduce the class of tropically quasiconvex functions whose sub-level sets have this shape. The latter are related to monotonic functions. Then we show that location problems whose distances are measured by tropically quasiconvex functions as before give an optimum in the tropical convex hull of the input points. We also show that a similar result holds if we replace the input points by tropically convex sets. Finally, we focus on applications to phylogenetics presenting properties of consensus methods arising from our class of location problems.
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spellingShingle Tropical convexity in location problems
Comăneci, Andrei
Optimization and Control
Metric Geometry
Populations and Evolution
14T90, 26B25, 52A30, 90B85, 92B10
We investigate location problems whose optimum lies in the tropical convex hull of the input points. Firstly, we study geodesically star-convex sets under the asymmetric tropical distance and introduce the class of tropically quasiconvex functions whose sub-level sets have this shape. The latter are related to monotonic functions. Then we show that location problems whose distances are measured by tropically quasiconvex functions as before give an optimum in the tropical convex hull of the input points. We also show that a similar result holds if we replace the input points by tropically convex sets. Finally, we focus on applications to phylogenetics presenting properties of consensus methods arising from our class of location problems.
title Tropical convexity in location problems
topic Optimization and Control
Metric Geometry
Populations and Evolution
14T90, 26B25, 52A30, 90B85, 92B10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04465