Real inflection points of real linear series on an elliptic curve

DOI10.1080/10586458.2019.1655815zbMATH Open1492.14056arXiv1804.06524OpenAlexW2971176241WikidataQ127331883 ScholiaQ127331883MaRDI QIDQ5094484FDOQ5094484

Authors: Ethan Cotterill, Cristhian Garay 

Publication date: 3 August 2022

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

Abstract: Given a real elliptic curve $E$ with non-empty real part and $[D]inmbox{Pic}^{2}E$ its $g_2^1$, we study the real inflection points of distinguished subseries of the complete real linear series $|mathcal{L}_{m}athbbR(kD)|$ for $kgeq3$. We define {it key polynomials} whose roots index the ($x$-coordinates of) inflection points of the linear series, away from the points where $E$ ramifies over $mathbb{P}^1$. These fit into a recursive hierarchy, in the same way that division polynomials index torsion points. Our study is motivated by, and complements, an analysis of how inflectionary loci vary in the degeneration of real {it hyperelliptic} curves to a metrized complex of curves with elliptic curve components that we carried out in our previous article with Biswas.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06524

Recommendations

• Real inflection points of real hyperelliptic curves
• Generalized inflection points of very general effective divisors on smooth curves
• On maximally inflected hyperbolic curves
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2100973
• Inflection points on real plane curves having many pseudo-lines

zbMATH Keywords

linear seriesWronskiansreal algebraic curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Real algebraic sets (14P05) Projective analytic geometry (51N15) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51) Elliptic curves (14H52)

Cites Work

• On Cayley's explicit solution to Poncelet's porism
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Real inflection points of real hyperelliptic curves

Cited In (3)

• Inflection divisors of linear series on an elliptic curve
• Arithmetic inflection formulae for linear series on hyperelliptic curves
• Real inflection points of real hyperelliptic curves

This page was built for publication: Real inflection points of real linear series on an elliptic curve

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5094484)