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Mounir Nisse

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Higher convexity of coamoeba complements

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.

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A tropical characterization of complex analytic varieties to be algebraic

In this paper we study a $k$-dimensional analytic subvariety of the complex algebraic torus. We show that if its logarithmic limit set is a finite rational $(k-1)$-dimensional spherical polyhedron, then each irreducible component of the variety is algebraic. This gives a converse of a theorem of Bieri and Groves and generalizes a result proven in \cite{MN2-11}. More precisely, if the dimension of the ambient space is at least twice of the dimension of the generic analytic subvariety, then these properties are equivalent to the volume of the amoeba of the subvariety being finite.

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Amoeba finite basis of solutions to a system of $n$ polynomials in $n$ variables

We show that the amoeba of a complex algebraic variety defined as the solutions to a generic system of $n$ polynomials in $n$ variables has a finite basis. In other words, it is the intersection of finitely many hypersurface amoebas. Moreover, we give an upper bound of the size of the basis in terms of $n$ and the mixed volume $μ$ of the Newton polytopes of the polynomial equations of the system. Also, we give an upper bound of the degree of the basis elements in terms of $μ$.

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Amoeba finite basis does not exist in general

We show that the amoeba of a generic complex algebraic variety of codimension $1<r<n$ do not have a finite basis. In other words, it is not the intersection of finitely many hypersurface amoebas. Moreover we give a geometric characterization of the topological boundary of hypersurface amoebas refining an earlier result of F. Schroeter and T. de Wolff \cite{SW-13}.

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On the Volume of Complex Amoebas

The paper deals with amoebas of $k$-dimensional algebraic varieties in the algebraic complex torus of dimension $n\geq 2k$. First, we show that the area of complex algebraic curve amoebas is finite. Moreover, we give an estimate of this area in the rational curve case in terms of the degree of the rational parametrization coordinates. We also show that the volume of the amoeba of $k$-dimensional algebraic variety in $(\mathbb{C}^*)^{n}$, with $n\geq 2k$, is finite.

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Generalized logarithmic Gauss map and its relation to (co)amoebas

We define the generalized logarithmic Gauss map for algebraic varieties of the complex algebraic torus of any codimension. Moreover, we describe the set of critical points of the logarithmic mapping restricted to our variety, and we show an analogous of Mikhalkin's result on the critical points of the logarithmic map restricted to a hypersurfaces.

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The Phase Limit Set of a Variety

A coamoeba is the image of a subvariety of a complex torus under the argument map to the real torus. We describe the structure of the boundary of the coamoeba of a variety, which we relate to its logarithmic limit set. Detailed examples of lines in three-dimensional space illustrate and motivate these results.

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Non-Archimedean coamoebae

A coamoeba is the image of a subvariety of a complex torus under the argument map to the real torus. Similarly, a non-archimedean coamoeba is the image of a subvariety of a torus over a non-archimedean field with complex residue field under an argument map. The phase tropical variety is the closure of the image under the pair of maps, tropicalization and argument. We describe the structure of non-archimedean coamoebae and phaseropical varieties in terms of complex coamoebae and their phase limit sets. The argument map depends upon a section of the valuation map, and we explain how this choice (mildly) affects the non-archimedean coamoeba. We also identify a class of varieties whose non-archimedean coamoebae and phase tropical varieties are objects from polyhedral combinatorics.

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Analytic varieties with finite volume amoebas are algebraic

In this paper, we study the amoeba volume of a given $k-$dimensional generic analytic variety $V$ of the complex algebraic torus $(\C^*)^n$. When $n\geq 2k$, we show that $V$ is algebraic if and only if the volume of its amoeba is finite. In this precise case, we establish a comparison theorem for the volume of the amoeba and the coamoeba. Examples and applications to the $k-$linear spaces will be given.

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Geometric and Combinatorial Structure of Hypersurface Coamoebas

Let $V$ be a complex algebraic hypersurface defined by a polynomial $f$ with Newton polytope $Δ$. It is well known that the spine of its amoeba has a structure of a tropical hypersurface. We prove in this paper that there exists a complex tropical hypersurface $V_{\infty, f}$ such that its coamoeba is homeomorphic to the closure in the real torus of the coamoeba of $V$. Moreover, the coamoeba of $V_{\infty, f}$ contains an arrangement of $(n-1)$-torus depending only on the geometry of $Δ$ and the coefficients of $f$. In addition, we can consider this arrangement, as a weighted codual hyperplanes arrangement in the universal covering of the real torus, and the balancing condition (the analogous to that of tropical hypersurfaces) is satisfied. This codual hyperplanes arrangement is called the {\em shell} of the complex coamoeba (the cousin of the spine of the complex amoeba). %(or the {\em average contour} of the complex coamoeba). Using this combinatorial coamoebas structure, we show that the amoebas of complex algebraic hypersurfaces defined by maximally sparse polynomials are solid. More precisely, we characterize the image of the order map defined by Forsberg, Passare, and Tsikh.

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Coamoebas of complex algebraic plane curves and the logarithmic Gauss map

The coamoeba of any complex algebraic plane curve $V$ is its image in the real torus under the argument map. The area counted with multiplicity of the coamoeba of any algebraic curve in $(\mathbb{C}^*)^2$ is bounded in terms of the degree of the curve. We show in this Note that up to multiplication by a constant in $(\mathbb{C}^*)^2$, the complex algebraic plane curves whose coamoebas are of maximal area (counted with multiplicity) are defined over $\mathbb{R}$, and their real loci are Harnack curves possibly with ordinary real isolated double points (c.f. \cite{MR-00}). In addition, we characterize the complex algebraic plane curves such that their coamoebas contain no extra-piece.

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Complex tropical localization, coamoebas, and mirror tropical hypersurfaces

We introduce in this paper the concept of tropical mirror hypersurfaces and we prove a complex tropical localization Theorem which is a version of Kapranov's Theorem \cite{K-00} in tropical geometry. We give a geometric and a topological equivalence between coamoebas of complex algebraic hypersurfaces defined by a maximally sparse polynomial and coamoebas of maximally sparse complex tropical hypersurfaces.

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Maximally Sparse Polynomials have Solid Amoebas

Let $f$ be an ordinary polynomial in $\mathbb{C}[z_1,..., z_n]$ with no negative exponents and with no factor of the form $z_1^{α_1}... z_n^{α_n}$ where $α_i$ are non zero natural integer. If we assume in addicting that $f$ is maximally sparse polynomial (that its support is equal to the set of vertices of its Newton polytope), then a complement component of the amoeba $\mathscr{A}_f$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ of the algebraic hypersurface $V_f\subset (\mathbb{C}^*)^n$ defined by $f$, has order lying in the support of $f$, which means that $\mathscr{A}_f$ is solid. This gives an affirmative answer to Passare and Rullgård question in [PR2-01].

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