Given an identity in max,plus arithmetic, are there ways to turn it into an ordinary algebraic identity it other than by replacing addition by multiplication and replacing max by series-plus or by parallel-plus, where the series sum of $x$ and $y$ is $x+y$ and the parallel sum is $xy/(x+y)$? (See the related posts choosing between the two ways to tropicalize and Name and notation for a binary operation)

As a related question, I ask: What are all the two-variable homogeneous rational functions over $\mathbb{C}$ such that $r(x,y)=r(y,x)$ and $r(r(x,y),z)=r(x,r(y,z))$? (Here I intend equality in the formal sense; e.g., I call $x/x$ the same rational function as 1, even though as functions they are not the same, since $x/x$ is not defined at 0.)

The only examples I know of are $r(x,y) = c$ (with $c$ an arbitrary constant), $r(x,y)=x+y$, $r(x,y)=xy/(x+y)$, and $r(x,y)=xy$, but I suspect that there are others I'm overlooking. Perhaps the theory of formal groups has an answer for me, but from what little I've seen, homogeneity does not play a role there. See the related post Commutative associative rational binary operations. Now that I've played a bit with operations like $(x+y)/(1-xy)$ (thanks, Alexandre Eremenko!), I'm suspecting that I should be limiting myself to homogeneous operations.

(Note: The original version of the post used the word "detropicalize'' in a non-standard and unclear way, so I've changed the title of the post and the wording of the first paragraph accordingly. Thanks, John Mangual!)