Shellings of Tropical Hypersurfaces

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Main Authors: Balla, George, Joswig, Michael, Weis, Lena
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Published: 2025
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author Balla, George
Joswig, Michael
Weis, Lena
author_facet Balla, George
Joswig, Michael
Weis, Lena
contents The shellability of the boundary complex of an unbounded polyhedron is investigated. To this end, it is necessary to pass to a suitable compactification, e.g., by one point. This observation can be exploited to prove that any tropical hypersurface is shellable. Under the hood there is a subtle interplay between the duality of polyhedral complexes and their shellability. Translated into discrete Morse theory, that interplay entails that the tight span of an arbitrary regular subdivision is collapsible, but not shellable in general.
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spellingShingle Shellings of Tropical Hypersurfaces
Balla, George
Joswig, Michael
Weis, Lena
Combinatorics
Algebraic Geometry
The shellability of the boundary complex of an unbounded polyhedron is investigated. To this end, it is necessary to pass to a suitable compactification, e.g., by one point. This observation can be exploited to prove that any tropical hypersurface is shellable. Under the hood there is a subtle interplay between the duality of polyhedral complexes and their shellability. Translated into discrete Morse theory, that interplay entails that the tight span of an arbitrary regular subdivision is collapsible, but not shellable in general.
title Shellings of Tropical Hypersurfaces
topic Combinatorics
Algebraic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07241