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The software TrIm offers implementations of tropical implicitization and tropical elimination, as developed by Tevelev and the authors. Given a polynomial map with generic coefficients, TrIm computes the tropical variety of the image. When the image is a hypersurface, the output is the Newton polytope of the defining polynomial. TrIm can thus be used to compute mixed fiber polytopes, including secondary polytopes.
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Sturmfels, B., Yu, J. (2008). Tropical Implicitization and Mixed Fiber Polytopes. In: Stillman, M., Verschelde, J., Takayama, N. (eds) Software for Algebraic Geometry. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 148. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78133-4_7
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