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

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNR233zbMATH Open1328.14099arXiv1106.5519OpenAlexW2963569381MaRDI QIDQ4902602FDOQ4902602

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)

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.

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

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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)

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