Counting tropical rational curves with cross-ratio constraints

DOI10.1007/S00209-020-02506-8MaRDI QIDQ2223504zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christoph Goldner

Publication date 29 January 2021

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00115

zbMATH Keywords

cross-ratiosdegenerationsenumerative geometryfloor diagramslattice path algorithmtropical geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Rigid analytic geometry (14G22) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Combinatorial aspects of tropical varieties (14T15)

Abstract: We enumerate rational curves in toric surfaces passing through points and satisfying cross-ratio constraints using tropical and combinatorial methods. Our starting point is arXiv:1509.07453, where a tropical-algebraic correspondence theorem was proved that relates counts of rational curves in toric varieties that satisfy point conditions and cross-ratio constraints to the analogous tropical counts. We proceed in two steps: based on tropical intersection theory we first study tropical cross-ratios and introduce degenerated cross-ratios. Second we provide a lattice path algorithm that produces all tropical curves satisfying such degenerated conditions explicitly. In a special case simpler combinatorial objects, so-called cross-ratio floor diagrams, are introduced which can be used to determine these enumerative numbers as well.

Review text

The paper introduces an algorithm for computing some geometric invariants. The cross-ratio of four points on \(\mathbb{C}P^1\) is a scalar that encodes the relative position of the four points up to the automorphisms of \(\mathbb{C}P^1\). If we consider rational curves of degree \(\Delta\) in \((\mathbb{C}^*)^2\), one usually look for curves passing through \(|\Delta|-1\) points in generic position inside \((\mathbb{C}^*)^2\). It is possible to replace some of the point conditions by cross-ratio constraints, \textit{i.e.} imposing the relative position for some quadruples of marked points chosen on the curve. The number of curves does not depend on the choice of the points inside \((\mathbb{C}^*)^2\) nor the fixed values of the cross-ratio. Using a correspondence theorem, it is natural to try to compute these invariants using the tropical approach. The tropicalization of a curve with four marked points is a tropical curve with a unique bounded edge and four dunbounded ends. The tropical cross-ratio, introduced by G. Mikhalkin corresponds to the length of the unique bounded edge. In [Adv. Math. 305, 1356--1383 (2017; Zbl 1401.14242)], \textit{I. Tyomkin} provides a correspondence theorem that allows one to deal with cross-ratio constraints. In the hereby considered setting, this allows one to compute the invariants from the last paragraph by looking for rational tropical curves in \(\mathbb{R}^2\) of degree \(\Delta\), passing through the right number of points and satisfying some cross-ratio constraints, and counting them with suitable multiplicities. In the present paper, the author uses the correspondence theorem from I. Tyomkin [loc. cit.] to provide an algorithm for the computation of the geometric invariants defined above. He proceeds in two steps. First, he uses tropical intersection theory of \textit{L. Allermann} and \textit{J. Rau} [Math. Z. 264, No. 3, 633--670 (2010; Zbl 1193.14074)] to replace the tropical cross-ratio constraints from the tropical enumerative problem to \textit{degenerated cross-ratio constraints}, meaning that the tropical cross-ratio are chosen to be \(0\): tropical curves are not trivalent anymore. This changes the tropical enumerative problem by an easier one, but at the cost of counting the solutions with a more complicated multiplicity that the author provides. Then, he provides a lattice path algorithm generalizing the one of \textit{G. Mikhalkin} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 18, No. 2, 313--377 (2005; Zbl 1092.14068)] to enumerate the solutions of his new tropical enumerative problem. Finally, in the case of Hirzebruch surfaces, he provides another algorithm using floor diagrams.

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