Linear systems on tropical curves

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DOI10.1007/S00209-011-0844-4zbMATH Open1408.14201arXiv0909.3685OpenAlexW2255136811MaRDI QIDQ415485FDOQ415485

Christian Haase, Josephine Yu, Gregg Musiker

Publication date: 8 May 2012

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A tropical curve Gamma is a metric graph with possibly unbounded edges, and tropical rational functions are continuous piecewise linear functions with integer slopes. We define the complete linear system |D| of a divisor D on a tropical curve Gamma analogously to the classical counterpart. We investigate the structure of |D| as a cell complex and show that linear systems are quotients of tropical modules, finitely generated by vertices of the cell complex. Using a finite set of generators, |D| defines a map from Gamma to a tropical projective space, and the image can be extended to a tropical curve of degree equal to deg(D). The tropical convex hull of the image realizes the linear system |D| as a polyhedral complex. We show that curves for which the canonical divisor is not very ample are hyperelliptic. We also show that the Picard group of a Q-tropical curve is a direct limit of critical groups of finite graphs converging to the curve.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3685





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