Counting tropical elliptic plane curves with fixed \(j\)-invariant
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Counting tropical elliptic plane curves with fixed \(j\)-invariant
zbMATH Open document ID: 1205.14071
DOI: 10.4171/CMH/166
author: Michael Kerber
author: Hannah Markwig
published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici
publication date: 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608472
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review text: \textit{R. Pandharipande} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 125, No.12, 3471--3479 (1997; Zbl 0883.14031)] counted algebraic elliptic curves of given degree, with given \(j\)-invariant, and passing through given generic points in the plane -- the answer is independent of the value of \(j\)-invariant, unless the latter equals 0 or 1728. The authors prove that this answer coincides with the number of tropical elliptic curves of given degree, with given \(j\)-invariant, and passing through given generic points (the tropical curves should be counted with natural multiplicities, coming from the moduli space of tropical elliptic curves, constructed in the paper). In particular, this weighted number of tropical curves is independent of the value of \(j\)-invariant and position of points. This gives a generalization of \textit{G. Mikhalkin}'s tropical enumeration [J. Am. Math. Soc. 18, 313--377 (2005; Zbl 1092.14068)] to elliptic curves with given \(j\)-invariant (although no explicit correspondence between tropical and classical elliptic curves is established). Immediate applications include a simplification of Mikhalkin's lattice path count for curves in the projective plane.
reviewed by: Alexander Esterov
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14N35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14T05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51M20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14N10
zbMATH DE Number: 5545775
zbMATH Keywords: elliptic curve
zbMATH Keywords: tropical curve
zbMATH Keywords: tropical variety
zbMATH Keywords: intersection product
zbMATH Keywords: moduli space of curves
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: math/0608472
description: scientific article