Bitangents of non-smooth tropical quartics (Q1656532)

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    Bitangents of non-smooth tropical quartics (English)
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    10 August 2018
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    Summary: We study bitangents of non-smooth tropical plane quartics. Our main result is that with appropriate multiplicities, every such curve has 7 equivalence classes of bitangent lines. Moreover, the multiplicity of bitangent lines varies continuously in families of tropical plane curves.
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    tropical geometry
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    quartic curves
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    bitangent lines
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    Jacobians
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    moduli of curves
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