Mixed discriminants

Mathematische Zeitschrift

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 761-778

  Cattani, Eduardo ^a   Cueto, María Angélica ^b   Dickenstein, Alicia ^c   Di Rocco, Sandra ^d   Sturmfels, Bernd ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

A discriminant; Cayley polytope; Degree; Matroid strata; Mixed Grassmannian; Multiple root; Tropical discriminant

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880623317     PISSN: 00255874     EISSN: 14321823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00209-012-1095-8     Document Type: Article

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