How to repair tropicalizations of plane curves using modifications

DOI10.1080/10586458.2015.1048013zbMATH Open1349.14196arXiv1409.7430OpenAlexW112657252MaRDI QIDQ2802003FDOQ2802003

María Angélica Cueto, Hannah Markwig

Publication date: 22 April 2016

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Tropical geometry is sensitive to embeddings of algebraic varieties inside toric varieties. The purpose of this paper is to advertise tropical modifications as a tool to locally repair bad embeddings of plane curves, allowing the re-embedded tropical curve to better reflect the geometry of the input curve. Our approach is based on the close connection between analytic curves (in the sense of Berkovich) and tropical curves. We investigate the effect of these tropical modifications on the tropicalization map defined on the analytification of the given curve. Our study is motivated by the case of plane elliptic cubics, where good embeddings are characterized in terms of the j-invariant. Given a plane elliptic cubic whose tropicalization contains a cycle, we present an effective algorithm, based on non-Archimedean methods, to linearly re-embed the curve in dimension 4 so that its tropicalization reflects the j-invariant. We give an alternative elementary proof of this result by interpreting the initial terms of the A-discriminant of the defining equation as a local discriminant in the Newton subdivision.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7430

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zbMATH Keywords

Berkovich spacesdiscriminantelliptic curvetropical geometrytropical modificationanalytificationj-invariant\(A\)-discriminant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigid analytic geometry (14G22) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Elliptic curves (14H52)

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• Lifting tropical bitangents
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• Tropical Hopf manifolds and contracting germs
• Tropicalized Quartics and Canonical Embeddings for Tropical Curves of Genus 3

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