TY - CHAP AU - Ansola Fernández-Enríquez, María Macarena AU - Puente Muñoz, María Jesús De La A4 - Litvinov, G. L. PY - 2009 DO - http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702143 SN - 978-0-8218-4782-4 SN - 0271-4132 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/45378 T2 - Tropical and idempotent mathematics AB - 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.... LA - eng M2 - 87 PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Tropical conics KW - factorization of tropical polynomials KW - tropically singular matrix. TI - Tropical conics for the layman TY - book part ER -