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We use recent results by Bainbridge-Chen-Gendron-Grushevsky-Moeller on compactifications of strata of abelian differentials to give a comprehensive solution to the realizability problem for effective tropical canonical divisors in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Martin Moeller , Martin Ulirsch , Annette Werner

The tropical rank of a semimodule of rational functions on a metric graph mirrors the concept of rank in linear algebra. Defined in terms of the maximal number of tropically independent elements within the semimodule, this quantity has…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Omid Amini , Stéphane Gaubert , Lucas Gierczak

Every graph $\Gamma$ can be embedded in the plane with a minimal number of edge intersections, called its classical crossing number $\text{cross}\left(\Gamma\right)$. In this paper, we prove that if $\Gamma$ is a metric graph it can be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Adan Medrano Martin del Campo , Sylvain Carpentier

We consider a variant of metrised graphs where the edge lengths take values in a commutative monoid, as a higher-rank generalisation of the notion of a tropical curve. Divisorial gonality, which Baker and Norine defined on combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Josse van Dobben de Bruyn , David Holmes , David van der Vorm

In this paper we prove several lifting theorems for morphisms of tropical curves. We interpret the obstruction to lifting a finite harmonic morphism of augmented metric graphs to a morphism of algebraic curves as the non-vanishing of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Omid Amini , Matthew Baker , Erwan Brugallé , Joseph Rabinoff

We study the tropicalization of intersections of plane curves, under the assumption that they have the same tropicalization. We show that the set of tropical divisors that arise in this manner is a pure dimensional balanced polyhedral…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Yoav Len , Matthew Satriano

A metric graph is a geometric realization of a finite graph by identifying each edge with a real interval. A divisor on a metric graph $\Gamma$ is an element of the free abelian group on $\Gamma$. The rank of a divisor on a metric graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-01 Ye Luo

In this paper, we study tropical Weierstrass points. These are the analogues for tropical curves of ramification points of line bundles on algebraic curves. For a divisor on a tropical curve, we associate intrinsic weights to the connected…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Omid Amini , Lucas Gierczak , Harry Richman

We describe a new method for computing tropical linear spaces and more general duals of polyhedral subdivisions. It is based on Ganter's algorithm (1984) for finite closure systems.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Simon Hampe , Michael Joswig , Benjamin Schröter

A sandpile is a cellular automaton on a graph that evolves by the following toppling rule: if the number of grains at a vertex is at least its valency, then this vertex sends one grain to each of its neighbors. In the study of pattern…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Nikita Kalinin , Mikhail Shkolnikov

Let $\Gamma$ be a compact tropical curve (or metric graph) of genus $g$. Using the theory of tropical theta functions, Mikhalkin and Zharkov proved that there is a canonical effective representative (called a break divisor) for each linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Yang An , Matthew Baker , Greg Kuperberg , Farbod Shokrieh

Tropical geometry gives a bound on the ranks of divisors on curves in terms of the combinatorics of the dual graph of a degeneration. We show that for a family of examples, curves realizing this bound might only exist over certain…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Dustin Cartwright

We determine the rational class and Picard groups of the moduli space of stable logarithmic maps in genus zero, with target projective space relative a hyperplane. For the class group we exhibit an explicit basis consisting of boundary…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Patrick Kennedy-Hunt , Navid Nabijou , Qaasim Shafi , Wanlong Zheng

The tropical convex hull of a finite set of points in tropical projective space has a natural structure of a cellular free resolution. Therefore, methods from computational commutative algebra can be used to compute tropical convex hulls.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-13 Florian Block , Josephine Yu

We prove that the congruence on the tropical rational function semifield in $n$-variables associated with a subset $V$ of $\boldsymbol{R}^n$ is finitely generated if and only if the closure of $V$ is a finite union of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-24 JuAe Song

Tropical geometry is a relatively recent field in mathematics created as a simplified model for certain problems in algebraic geometry. We introduce the definition of abstract and planar tropical curves as well as their properties,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Stanley Wang

Abstractly, tropical hyperelliptic curves are metric graphs that admit a two-to-one harmonic morphism to a tree. They also appear as embedded tropical curves in the plane arising from triangulations of polygons with all interior lattice…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Ralph Morrison

We study the tropical version of the contraction morphism $\mathcal{T}$ between moduli spaces of stable and pseudostable curves. By promoting $\mathcal{T}$ to a logarithmic morphism, we obtain a piecewise linear function between the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Renzo Cavalieri , Steffen Marcus , Jonathan Wise

Let $\Gamma$ be a metric graph having a linear system $g^r_{2r}$ for some $2 \leq r \leq g-2$ then $\Gamma$ has a linear system $g^1_2$. This is similar to the well-known Clifford's Theorem from the theory of linear systems on smooth…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-24 Marc Coppens

We study a notion of tropical linear series on metric graphs that combines two essential properties of tropicalizations of linear series on algebraic curves: the Baker-Norine rank and the independence rank. Our main results relate the local…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Chih-Wei Chang , Matthew Dupraz , Hernan Iriarte , David Jensen , Dagan Karp , Sam Payne , Jidong Wang