Intrinsicness of the Newton polygon for smooth curves on P^1 P^1

DOI10.1007/S13163-017-0224-7MaRDI QIDQ1675675zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wouter Castryck, Filip Cools

Publication date 2 November 2017

Published in Revista Matemática Complutense (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4997

zbMATH Keywords

lattice polygonnon-degenerate curvescrollar invariantstoric surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Special surfaces (14J25) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)

Abstract: Let $C$ be a smooth projective curve in $mathbb{P}^{1}imesmathbb{P}^1$ of genus $geq4$, and assume that it is birationally equivalent to a curve defined by a Laurent polynomial that is non-degenerate with respect to its Newton polygon $Delta$. Then we show that the convex hull $Delt{a}^{(1)}$ of the interior lattice points of $Delta$ is a standard rectangle, up to a unimodular transformation. Our main auxiliary result, which we believe to be interesting in its own right, is that the first scrollar Betti numbers of $Delta$-non-degenerate curves are encoded in the combinatorics of $Delt{a}^{(1)}$, if $Delta$ satisfies some mild conditions.

Review text

The authors extend the study on the Newton polygons for tetragonal curves and smooth planar curves presented in [Doc. Math. 20, 927--942 (2015; Zbl 1365.14042)] and [``Linear pencils encoded in the Newton polygon, Int. Math. Res. Not. 2017, No. 10, 2998--3049 (2017; \url{doi:10.1093/imrn/rnw082})] respectively, to the case of curves on \(\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1\). They prove that a non-degenerate curve with respect to a Newton polygon of genus different from \(4\) can be embedded in \(\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1\) if and only if the convex hull of the interior lattice points of the Newton polygon is (up to a unimodular transformation) a standard rectangle i.e., non-degenerate curves in \(\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1\) have an intrinsic Newton polygon if their genus is \(\neq 4\).

Recommendations

• The Newton polygon of a rational plane curve
• Linear pencils encoded in the Newton polygon
• Brill-Noether theory of curves on toric surfaces
• A combinatorial interpretation for Schreyer's tetragonal invariants
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1361101

Cites work

• A combinatorial interpretation for Schreyer's tetragonal invariants
• A minimal set of generators for the canonical ideal of a nondegenerate curve
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4053804 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 935291 (Why is no real title available?)
• Intrinsicness of the Newton polygon for smooth curves on \({\mathbb {P}}^1\times {\mathbb {P}}^1\)
• Newton polyhedra and toroidal varieties
• Resolutions of general canonical curves on rational normal scrolls
• Syzygies of canonical curves and special linear series
• The gonality and the Clifford index of curves on a toric surface

Cited in

(9)

• Intrinsicness of the Newton polygon for smooth curves on \({\mathbb {P}}^1\times {\mathbb {P}}^1\)
• Newton polygons and curve gonalities
• Brill-Noether theory of curves on toric surfaces
• Canonical syzygies of smooth curves on toric surfaces
• A combinatorial interpretation for Schreyer's tetragonal invariants
• Linear pencils encoded in the Newton polygon
• The lattice size of a lattice polygon
• On the Liouville integrability of the periodic Kostant-Toda flow on matrix loops of level k
• The Newton polygon of a rational plane curve

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• RelativeCanonicalResolution

This page was built for publication: Intrinsicness of the Newton polygon for smooth curves on \({\mathbb {P}}^1\times {\mathbb {P}}^1\)

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1675675)