Real inflection points of real hyperelliptic curves
Abstract
Given a real hyperelliptic algebraic curve with non-empty real part and a real effective divisor arising via pullback from under the hyperelliptic structure map, we study the real inflection points of the associated complete real linear series on . To do so we use Viro's patchworking of real plane curves, recast in the context of some Berkovich spaces studied by M. Jonsson. Our method gives a simpler and more explicit alternative to limit linear series on metrized complexes of curves, as developed by O. Amini and M. Baker, for curves embedded in toric surfaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1708.08400,
title = {Real inflection points of real hyperelliptic curves},
author = {Indranil Biswas and Ethan Cotterill and Cristhian Garay López},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08400},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
v.2: improved exposition following the referee's suggestions, and included a new result (Thm 6.1) giving a more refined construction of real inflection on complete series on hyperelliptic curves that includes non-maximal cases. To appear in Transactions of the AMS