Amoebas of algebraic varieties

In this paper we try to look at the compactification of Teichmuller spaces from a tropical viewpoint. We describe a general construction for the compactification of algebraic varieties, using their amoebas, and we describe the boundary via tropical varieties. When we apply this construction to the Teichmuller spaces we see that they can be mapped in a real algebraic hypersurface in such a way that the cone over the boundary is a subpolyhedron of a tropical hypersurface. We wa...

The paper deals with singularities of nonconfluent hypergeometric functions in several variables. Typically such a function is a multi-valued analytic function with singularities along an algebraic hypersurface. We describe such hypersurfaces in terms of amoebas and the Newton polytopes of their defining polynomials. In particular, we show that all $\mathcal{A}$-discriminantal hypersurfaces (in the sense of Gelfand, Kapranov and Zelevinsky) have solid amoebas, that is, amoeba...

We give a complete description of amoebas and coamoebas of $k$-dimensional very affine linear spaces in $(\mathbb{C}^*)^{n}$. This include an upper bound of their dimension, and we show that if a $k$-dimensional very affine linear space in $(\mathbb{C}^*)^{n}$ is generic, then the dimension of its (co)amoeba is equal to $\min \{ 2k, n\}$. Moreover, we prove that the volume of its coamoeba is equal to $\pi^{2k}$. In addition, if the space is generic and real, then the volume o...

In this paper we prove the topological uniqueness of maximal arrangements of a real plane algebraic curve with respect to three lines. More generally, we prove the topological uniqueness of a maximally arranged algebraic curve on a real toric surface. We use the moment map as a tool for studying the topology of real algebraic curves and their complexifications.

Answering a question by Nisse and Sottile, we derive a formula for the dimension of the amoeba of an irreducible algebraic variety.

The prime motivation behind this paper is to prove that any torus link $\mathcal{L}$ can be realized as the union of the one-dimensional connected components of the set of critical values of the argument map restricted to a complex algebraic plane curve. Moreover, given an isolated complex algebraic plane curve quasi-homogeneous singularity, we give an explicit topological and geometric description of the link $\mathcal{L}$ corresponding to this singularity. In other words, w...

For a real smooth algebraic curve $A \subset (\mathhbb{C}^*)^2$, the amoeba $\mathcal{A} \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ is the image of $A$ under the map Log : $(x,y) \mapsto (\log |x|, \log | y |)$. We describe an universal bound for the total curvature of the real amoeba $\mathcal{A}_{\mathbb{R} A}$ and we prove that this bound is reached if and only if the curve $A$ is a simple Harnack curve in the sense of Mikhalkin.

We completely characterize sections of the cones of nonnegative polynomials, convex polynomials and sums of squares with polynomials supported on circuits, a genuine class of sparse polynomials. In particular, nonnegativity is characterized by an invariant, which can be immediately derived from the initial polynomial. Furthermore, nonnegativity of such polynomials $f$ coincides with solidness of the amoeba of $f$, i.e., the Log-absolute-value image of the algebraic variety $\...

To any algebraic curve A in a complex 2-torus $(\C^*)^2$ one may associate a closed infinite region in a real plane called the amoeba of A. The amoebas of different curves of the same degree come in different shapes and sizes. All amoebas in have finite area and, furthermore, there is an upper bound on the area in terms of the degree of the curve. The subject of this paper is the curves in a complex 2-torus whose amoebas are of the maximal area. We show that up to multiplic...

We show that the complement of the coamoeba of a variety of codimension k+1 is k-convex, in the sense of Gromov and Henriques. This generalizes a result of Nisse for hypersurface coamoebas. We use this to show that the complement of the nonarchimedean coamoeba of a variety of codimension k+1 is k-convex.