Obstructions to Lifting Tropical Curves in Surfaces in 3-Space

DOI10.1137/110825558zbMATH Open1312.14141arXiv1101.0297OpenAlexW2964213046MaRDI QIDQ4899044FDOQ4899044

Eric Katz, Tristram Bogart

Publication date: 4 January 2013

Published in: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Tropicalization is a procedure that takes subvarieties of an algebraic torus to balanced weighted rational complexes in space. In this paper, we study the tropicalizations of curves in surfaces in 3-space. These are balanced rational weighted graphs in tropical surfaces. Specifically, we study the `lifting' problem: given a graph in a tropical surface, can one find a corresponding algebraic curve in a surface? We develop specific combinatorial obstructions to lifting a graph by reducing the problem to the question of whether or not one can factor a polynomial with particular support in the characteristic 0 case. This explains why some unusual tropical curves constructed by Vigeland are not liftable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0297

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zbMATH Keywords

tropical geometryNewton polytopeslifting problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20)

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