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We study Minkowski sums and Hadamard products of algebraic varieties. Specifically, we explore when these are varieties and examine their properties in terms of those of the original varieties. This project was inspired by Problem 5 on Surfaces in [13].
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This article was initiated during the Apprenticeship Weeks (22 August–2 September 2016), led by Bernd Sturmfels, as part of the Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry Semester at the Fields Institute. The second author was supported by G S Magnuson Foundation from Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien (Sweden).
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Friedenberg, N., Oneto, A., Williams, R.L. (2017). Minkowski Sums and Hadamard Products of Algebraic Varieties. In: Smith, G., Sturmfels, B. (eds) Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry. Fields Institute Communications, vol 80. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7486-3_7
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