%0 Book Section
%T Tropical conics for the layman
publisher American Mathematical Society
%D 2009
%U 978-0-8218-4782-4
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/45378
%X We present a simple and elementary procedure to sketch the tropical conic given by a degree-two homogeneous tropical polynomial. These conics are trees of a very particular kind. Given such a tree, we explain how to compute a defining polynomial. Finally, we characterize those degree-two tropical polynomials which are reducible and factorize them. We show that there exist irreducible degree-two tropical polynomials giving rise to pairs of tropical lines.
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