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Filtered geometric lattices and Lefschetz Section Theorems over the tropical semiring

Karim Alexander Adiprasito·Anders Björner
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The purpose of this paper is to establish analogues of the classical Lefschetz Section Theorem for smooth tropical varieties. More precisely, we prove tropical analogues of the section theorems of Lefschetz, Andreotti-Frankel, Bott-Milnor-Thom, Hamm-Lê and Kodaira-Spencer, and the vanishing theorems of Andreotti-Frankel and Akizuki-Kodaira-Nakano. We start the paper by resolving a conjecture of Mikhalkin and Ziegler (2008) concerning the homotopy types of certain filtrations of geometric lattices, generalizing several known properties of full geometric lattices. This translates to a crucial index estimate for the stratified Morse data at critical points of the tropical variety; it can also by itself be interpreted as a Lefschetz-type theorem for matroids.

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Karim Alexander Adiprasito, Anders Björner. 2021-01-25. Filtered geometric lattices and Lefschetz Section Theorems over the tropical semiring. https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7301

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