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The entropic discriminant

Raman Sanyal, Bernd Sturmfels, Cynthia Vinzantc – 2013

- Focus Area 3: Topological connectivity - The entropic discriminant is a non-negative polynomial associated to a matrix. It arises in contexts ranging from statistics and linear programming to singularity theory and algebraic geometry. It describes the complex branch locus of the polar map of a real hyperplane arrangement, and it vanishes when the equations defining the analytic center of a linear program have a complex double root. We study the geometry of the entropic discriminant, and we express its degree in terms of the characteristic polynomial of the underlying matroid. Singularities of reciprocal linear spaces play a key role. In the corank-one case, the entropic discriminant admits a sum of squares representation derived from the discriminant of a characteristic polynomial of a symmetric matrix.

Titel
The entropic discriminant
Verfasser
Raman Sanyal, Bernd Sturmfels, Cynthia Vinzantc
Datum
2013-09
Erschienen in
Advances in Mathematics, Volume 244, 10 September 2013, Pages 678–707
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