Broccoli curves and the tropical invariance of Welschinger numbers

Details Broccoli curves and the tropical invariance of Welschinger numbers Broccoli curves and the tropical invariance of Welschinger numbers

2011-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/1104.3118v1

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

49 pages

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In this paper we introduce broccoli curves, certain plane tropical curves of genus zero related to real algebraic curves. The numbers of these broccoli curves through given points are independent of the chosen points - for arbitrary choices of the directions of the ends of the curves, possibly with higher weights, and also if some of the ends are fixed. In the toric Del Pezzo case we show that these broccoli invariants are equal to the Welschinger invariants (with real and complex conjugate point conditions), thus providing a proof of the independence of Welschinger invariants of the point conditions within tropical geometry. The general case gives rise to a tropical Caporaso-Harris formula for broccoli curves which suffices to compute all Welschinger invariants of the plane.

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