1. The geometry of the set of characters induced by valuations;Bieri, Robert;J. Reine Angew. Math.,1984
2. J. Canny, Some algebraic and geometric computations in PSPACE, Proc. 20th Symp. Theory of Computing, Chicago(1988),ACM Press.
3. E. Çela, R. Rudolf, and J. Woeginger, On the Barvinok rank of matrices, presentation at the 2nd Aussois Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, February 1998.
4. M. Develin, F. Santos, and B. Sturmfels, On the rank of a tropical matrix, arxiv:math.CO/0312114.
5. Marshall Hall, Group Theory, Macmillan, New York, 1964.