Tropical hyperelliptic curves in the plane

DOI10.1007/S10801-019-00933-3zbMATH Open1460.14147arXiv1708.00571OpenAlexW3024530366MaRDI QIDQ2025119FDOQ2025119

Ralph Morrison

Publication date: 11 May 2021

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

Abstract: Abstractly, tropical hyperelliptic curves are metric graphs that admit a two-to-one harmonic morphism to a tree. They also appear as embedded tropical curves in the plane arising from triangulations of polygons with all interior lattice points collinear. We prove that hyperelliptic graphs can only arise from such polygons. Along the way we will prove certain graphs do not embed tropically in the plane due to entirely combinatorial obstructions, regardless of whether their metric is actually hyperelliptic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00571

zbMATH Keywords

tropical curvestropical geometryhyperelliptic graphsmetric graphslattice polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric aspects of tropical varieties (14T20) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51)

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