Newton polygons and curve gonalities

DOI10.1007/S10801-011-0304-6zbMath1376.14031arXiv1106.3762OpenAlexW1977516669MaRDI QIDQ1686120

Wouter Castryck, Filip Cools

Publication date: 21 December 2017

Published in: Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a combinatorial upper bound for the gonality of a curve that is defined by a bivariate Laurent polynomial with given Newton polygon. We conjecture that this bound is generically attained, and provide proofs in a considerable number of special cases. One proof technique uses recent work of M. Baker on linear systems on graphs, by means of which we reduce our conjecture to a purely combinatorial statement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3762

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Graph theory (05C99) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51)

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