Complex and tropical counts via positive characteristic

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2022.07.003zbMATH Open1505.14074arXiv2004.00955OpenAlexW3014498935MaRDI QIDQ2105657

Marco Pacini, Damiano Testa

Publication date: 8 December 2022

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We reconcile the discrepancy between the complex and tropical counts of some enumerative problems reducing to positive characteristic. Each problem that we consider suggests a prime with special behaviour. Modulo this prime, the solutions coalesce in uniform clusters: at this special prime, the geometric and the tropical behaviours match. As examples, we concentrate on inflection points of plane curves and theta-hyperplanes of canonical curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00955

zbMATH Keywords

ramificationlengthcurvespositive characteristicclassical enumerative problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Positive characteristic ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G17) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Ramification problems in algebraic geometry (14E22) Tropical geometry (14T99)

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