The Newton polygon of a rational plane curve

Details The Newton polygon of a rational plane curve The Newton polygon of a rational plane curve

2007-10-04

arxiv.org/abs/0710.1103v3

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

To appear in Mathematics of Computer Science, 26 pp.

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The Newton polygon of the implicit equation of a rational plane curve is explicitly determined by the multiplicities of any of its parametrizations. We give an intersection-theoretical proof of this fact based on a refinement of the Kushnirenko-Bernstein theorem. We apply this result to the determination of the Newton polygon of a curve parameterized by generic Laurent polynomials or by generic rational functions, with explicit genericity conditions. We also show that the variety of rational curves with given Newton polygon is unirational and we compute its dimension. As a consequence, we obtain that any convex lattice polygon with positive area is the Newton polygon of a rational plane curve.

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