Lifting tropical bitangents

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DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2019.02.015zbMATH Open1498.14154arXiv1708.04480OpenAlexW2746325300WikidataQ128287838 ScholiaQ128287838MaRDI QIDQ2000294FDOQ2000294

Yoav Len, Hannah Markwig

Publication date: 28 June 2019

Published in: Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study lifts of tropical bitangents to the tropicalization of a given complex algebraic curve together with their lifting multiplicities. Using this characterization, we show that generically all the seven bitangents of a smooth tropical plane quartic lift in sets of four to algebraic bitangents. We do this constructively, i.e. we give solutions for the initial terms of the coefficients of the bitangent lines. This is a step towards a tropical proof that a general smooth quartic admits 28 bitangent lines. The methods are also appropriate to count real bitangents, however the conditions to determine whether a tropical bitangent has real lifts are not purely combinatorial.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04480





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