The tropical n-gonal construction

arXiv2210.02267MaRDI QIDQ6412974FDOQ6412974

Authors: Felix Röhrle, D. D. Zakharov 

Publication date: 5 October 2022

Abstract: We give a purely tropical analogue of Donagi's $n$-gonal construction and investigate its combinatorial properties. The input of the construction is a harmonic double cover of an $n$-gonal tropical curve. For $n=2$ and a dilated double cover, the output is a tower of the same type, and we show that the Prym varieties of the two double covers are dual tropical abelian varieties. For $n=3$ and a free double cover, the output is a tetragonal tropical curve with dilation profile nowhere $(2,2)$ or $(4)$, and we show that the construction can be reversed. Furthermore, the Prym variety of the double cover and the Jacobian of the tetragonal curve are isomorphic as principally polarized tropical abelian varieties. Our main tool is tropical homology theory, and our proofs closely follow the algebraic versions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric aspects of tropical varieties (14T20) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40)

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