Cancellative elements in bend quotients of tropical principal prime ideals

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

J=trop⁡I⊆S[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.

References

Primary source

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

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