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Tropical tangents for complete intersection curves

Algebraic Geometry 2022-05-20 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We consider the tropicalization of tangent lines to a complete intersection curve XX in Pn\mathbb{P}^n. Under mild hypotheses, we describe a procedure for computing the tropicalization of the image of the Gauss map of XX in terms of the tropicalizations of the hypersurfaces cutting out XX. We apply this to obtain descriptions of the tropicalization of the dual variety XX^* and tangential variety τ(X)\tau(X) of XX. In particular, we are able to compute the degrees of XX^* and τ(X)\tau(X) and the Newton polytope of τ(X)\tau(X) without using any elimination theory.

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@article{arxiv.2104.15059,
  title  = {Tropical tangents for complete intersection curves},
  author = {Nathan Ilten and Yoav Len},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.15059},
  year   = {2022}
}

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49 pages, 6 figures, 9 tables