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Refined Brill-Noether Theory for Complete Graphs

Combinatorics 2025-01-13 v1

Abstract

The divisor theory of the complete graph KnK_n is in many ways similar to that of a plane curve of degree nn. We compute the splitting types of all divisors on the complete graph KnK_n. We see that the possible splitting types of divisors on KnK_n exactly match the possible splitting types of line bundles on a smooth plane curve of degree nn. This generalizes the earlier result of Cori and Le Borgne computing the ranks of all divisors on KnK_n, and the earlier work of Cools and Panizzut analyzing the possible ranks of divisors of fixed degree on KnK_n.

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@article{arxiv.2501.06083,
  title  = {Refined Brill-Noether Theory for Complete Graphs},
  author = {Haruku Aono and Eric Burkholder and Owen Craig and Ketsile Dikobe and David Jensen and Ella Norris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06083},
  year   = {2025}
}
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