The Newton polygon of a rational plane curve

DOI10.1007/S11786-010-0045-2zbMATH Open1205.14039arXiv0710.1103OpenAlexW1967265325MaRDI QIDQ626972FDOQ626972

Martín Sombra, Carlos D'Andrea

Publication date: 19 February 2011

Published in: Mathematics in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Newton polygon of the implicit equation of a rational plane curve is explicitly determined by the multiplicities of any of its parametrizations. We give an intersection-theoretical proof of this fact based on a refinement of the Kushnirenko-Bernstein theorem. We apply this result to the determination of the Newton polygon of a curve parameterized by generic Laurent polynomials or by generic rational functions, with explicit genericity conditions. We also show that the variety of rational curves with given Newton polygon is unirational and we compute its dimension. As a consequence, we obtain that any convex lattice polygon with positive area is the Newton polygon of a rational plane curve.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1103

zbMATH Keywords

parametrizationNewton polygonrational plane curveimplicit equationmixed integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Plane and space curves (14H50) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

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• Computing the Newton polygon of the implicit equation
• On Intrinsic Negative Curves
• Factorization of the polar curve and the Newton polygon
• Implicitization of curves and (hyper)surfaces using predicted support
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Uses Software

• Convex
• TrIm

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