4.7 [035Q]
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4.7
The tropical weight on an -dimensional polyhedron of is defined in the following way. By density of the value group in , there is . We choose with . Then the closure of in is a flat variety over whose special fibre is called the initial degeneration of at . Note that is a closed subscheme of . Let be the multiplicity of the irreducible component of . Then the tropical weight is defined by , where ranges over all irreducible components of . One can show that the definition is independent of the choices of and . It is a non-trivial fact from tropical geometry that is a tropical cycle (see [Gu12], §13, for details).