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We introduce and study minimal (with respect to inclusion) solutions of finite systems of tropical linear differential equations. We describe the set of all minimal solutions for a single equation. It is shown that any tropical linear differential equation in a single unknown has either a solution, or a solution at infinity. For a generic system of n tropical linear differential equations in the same number of unknowns, upper and lower bounds on the number of minimal solutions are established. The upper bound involves inversions of a family of permutations, which generalize inversions of a single permutation. For \(n=1, 2\), we show that the bounds are sharp.
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