Linear Systems on Tropical Curves

Details Linear Systems on Tropical Curves Linear Systems on Tropical Curves

2009-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/0909.3685v1

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

28 pages, 17 figures

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A tropical curve \Gamma is a metric graph with possibly unbounded edges, and tropical rational functions are continuous piecewise linear functions with integer slopes. We define the complete linear system |D| of a divisor D on a tropical curve \Gamma analogously to the classical counterpart. We investigate the structure of |D| as a cell complex and show that linear systems are quotients of tropical modules, finitely generated by vertices of the cell complex. Using a finite set of generators, |D| defines a map from \Gamma to a tropical projective space, and the image can be extended to a tropical curve of degree equal to \deg(D). The tropical convex hull of the image realizes the linear system |D| as a polyhedral complex. We show that curves for which the canonical divisor is not very ample are hyperelliptic. We also show that the Picard group of a \Q-tropical curve is a direct limit of critical groups of finite graphs converging to the curve.

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