Bitangents of non-smooth tropical quartics
Algebraic Geometry
2020-12-16 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
We study bitangents of non-smooth tropical plane quartics. Our main result is that with appropriate multiplicities, every such curve has 7 equivalence classes of bitangent lines. Moreover, the multiplicity of bitangent lines varies continuously in families of tropical plane curves.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.10126,
title = {Bitangents of non-smooth tropical quartics},
author = {Heejong Lee and Yoav Len},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10126},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures. Initiated at the Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program