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Moduli dimensions of lattice polygons

Algebraic Geometry 2020-10-27 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Given a lattice polygon PP with gg interior lattice points, we associate to it the moduli space of tropical curves of genus gg with Newton polygon PP. We completely classify the possible dimensions such a moduli space can have. For non-hyperelliptic polygons the dimension must be between gg and 2g+12g+1, and can take on any integer value in this range, with exceptions only in the cases of genus 33, 44, and 77. We provide a similar result for hyperelliptic polygons, for which the range of dimensions is from gg to 2g12g-1. In the case of non-hyperelliptic polygons, our results also hold for the moduli space of algebraic curves that are non-degenerate with respect to PP.

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@article{arxiv.2010.13135,
  title  = {Moduli dimensions of lattice polygons},
  author = {Marino Echavarria and Max Everett and Shinyu Huang and Liza Jacoby and Ralph Morrison and Ayush Kumar Tewari and Raluca Vlad and Ben Weber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.13135},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages, 15 figures

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