A note on Brill-Noether theory and rank-determining sets for metric graphs

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNR233MaRDI QIDQ4902602zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chang Mou Lim, Sam Payne, Natasha Potashnik

Publication date 16 January 2013

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5519

zbMATH Keywords

tropical curveslinear systemsmetric graphsupper-semicontinuityBrill-Noether

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

Abstract: We produce open subsets of the moduli space of metric graphs without separating edges where the dimensions of Brill-Noether loci are larger than the corresponding Brill-Noether numbers. These graphs also have minimal rank determining sets that are larger than expected, giving couterexamples to a conjecture of Luo. Furthermore, limits of these graphs have Brill-Noether loci of the expected dimension, so dimensions of Brill-Noether loci of metric graphs do not vary upper semicontinuously in families. Motivated by these examples, we study a notion of rank for the Brill-Noether locus of a metric graph, closely analogous to the Baker-Norine definition of the rank of a divisor. We show that ranks of Brill-Noether loci vary upper semicontinuously in families of metric graphs and are related to dimensions of Brill-Noether loci of algebraic curves by a specialization inequality.

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