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We prove that the proper amalgam of matroids M₁ and M₂ along their common restriction N exists if and only if the tropical fibre product of Bergman fans B (M₁) ₁ (₍) B (M₂) is positive. We introduce tropical correspondences between Bergman fans as tropical subcycles in their product, similar to correspondences in algebraic geometry, and define a "graph correspondence" of the map of lattices. We prove that graph construction is a functor for the "covering" maps of lattices, exploiting a generalization of Bergman fan which we call a "Flag fan".
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