Tropicalization and irreducibility of generalized Vandermonde determinants
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Abstract:
We find geometric and arithmetic conditions in order to characterize the irreducibility of the determinant of the generic Vandermonde matrix over the algebraic closure of any field $k$. We also characterize those determinants whose tropicalization with respect to the variables of a row is irreducible.References
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Additional Information
- Carlos D’Andrea
- Affiliation: Departament d’Àlgebra i Geometria, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via 585, E-08007 Barcelona, Spain
- MR Author ID: 652039
- Email: cdandrea@ub.edu
- Luis Felipe Tabera
- Affiliation: Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Cantabria, Estadística y Computación, Av. los Castros s/n, E-39005, Santander, Spain
- Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 893 Evans Hall #3840, Berkeley, California 94720-3840
- Email: tabera@berkeley.edu
- Received by editor(s): March 14, 2008
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 27, 2009
- Published electronically: June 12, 2009
- Additional Notes: The first author was supported by the Programa Ramón y Cajal and the Research Project grant MTM2007–67493 from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain.
The second author was supported by the Research Project grant MTM2005-08690-CO2-02 and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain - Communicated by: Martin Lorenz
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 3647-3656
- MSC (2000): Primary 12E05; Secondary 14M12
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09951-1
- MathSciNet review: 2529871