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We study the notion of singular tropical hypersurfaces of any dimension. We characterize the singular points in terms of tropical Euler derivatives and we give an algorithm to compute all singular points. We also describe non-transversal intersection points of planar tropical curves.
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Dickenstein, A., Tabera, L.F. Singular Tropical Hypersurfaces. Discrete Comput Geom 47, 430–453 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-011-9364-6
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