The entropic discriminant

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 244, Issue , 2013, Pages 678-707

  Sanyal, Raman ^a   Sturmfels, Bernd ^b   Vinzant, Cynthia ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant; Fully real system; Hyperplane arrangement; Matroid; Ramification locus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879522359     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2013.05.019     Document Type: Article

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