Cancellative elements in bend quotients of tropical principal prime ideals

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Let KK be a field with valuation KSK\to S, where SS is a sub-semifield of T\mathbb{T}, and let M\mathcal{M} be a toric monoid. Let IK[M]I\subseteq K[\mathcal{M}] be a principal prime ideal containing neither a monomial nor a binomial, and set

J=tropIS[M].J=\operatorname{trop} I\subseteq S[\mathcal{M}].

Cancellative-elements conjecture. An element of S[M]/Bend(J)S[\mathcal{M}]/\operatorname{Bend}(J) is cancellative if and only if it is the image of a term of S[M]S[\mathcal{M}].

This gives a concrete description of cancellative elements in the tropical coordinate semirings used to compute total semirings of fractions. The examples motivate the claim, but no proof or resolution is supplied here.

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Netanel Friedenberg and Kalina Mincheva, “Integral closure for (additively idempotent) semirings”, arXiv:2607.11219 (2026).

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