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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We study the topology of tropical varieties that arise from a certain natural class of varieties. We use the theory of tropical degenerations to construct a natural, “multiplicity-free” parameterization of Trop$\left( X \right)$ by a topological space
${{\Gamma }_{X}}$ and give a geometric interpretation of the cohomology of
${{\Gamma }_{X}}$ in terms of the action of a monodromy operator on the cohomology of
$X$. This gives bounds on the Betti numbers of
${{\Gamma }_{X}}$ in terms of the Betti numbers of
$X$ which constrain the topology of Trop
$\left( X \right)$. We also obtain a description of the top power of the monodromy operator acting on middle cohomology of
$X$ in terms of the volume pairing on
${{\Gamma }_{X}}$.