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Dequantization of real algebraic geometry on logarithmic paper. (English) Zbl 1024.14026

Casacuberta, Carles (ed.) et al., 3rd European congress of mathematics (ECM), Barcelona, Spain, July 10-14, 2000. Volume I. Basel: Birkhäuser. Prog. Math. 201, 135-146 (2001).
Summary: On logarithmic paper some real algebraic curves look like smoothed broken lines. Moreover, the broken lines can be obtained as limits of those curves. The corresponding deformation can be viewed as a quantization, in which the broken line is a classical object and the curves are quantum. This generalizes to a new connection between algebraic geometry and the geometry of polyhedra, which is more straight-forward than the other known connections and gives a new insight into constructions used in the topology of real algebraic varieties.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0972.00031].

MSC:

14P25 Topology of real algebraic varieties
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