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This is a follow-up paper of arXiv:1805.00115, where rational curves in surfaces that satisfy general positioned point and cross-ratio conditions were enumerated. A suitable correspondence theorem provided in arXiv:1509.07453 allowed us to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Christoph Goldner

We prove that a planar graph is generically rigid in the plane if and only if it can be embedded as a pseudo-triangulation. This generalizes the main result of math.CO/0307347 which treats the minimally generically rigid case. The proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-24 David Orden , Francisco Santos , Brigitte Servatius , Herman Servatius

In this paper we focus on the tropical convex hull of convex sets and polyhedral complexes. We give a vertex description of the tropical convex hull of a line segment and a ray. %in \RR^{n+1}/\RR\mathbf{1}. Next we show that tropical convex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Cvetelina Hill , Sara Lamboglia , Faye Pasley Simon

We introduce tropical analogues of the notion of volume of polytopes, leading to a tropical version of the (discrete) classical isoperimetric inequality. The planar case is elementary, but a higher-dimensional generalization leads to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Jules Depersin , Stéphane Gaubert , Michael Joswig

The notion of geometric construction is introduced. This notion allows to compare incidence configurations in the algebraic and tropical plane. We provide an algorithm such that, given a tropical instance of a geometric construction, it…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-10 Luis Felipe Tabera

After recalling the notion of caustics of plane curves and basic equations, we first show the birationality of the caustic map for a general source point S in the plane. Then we prove more generally a theorem for curves D in the projective…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Fabrizio Catanese

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

We consider the enumeration of tropical curves in M\"obius strips for two different lattice structures and relate them to the enumeration of curves in two rational ruled surfaces over a complex elliptic curve. Using this correspondence, we…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Thomas Blomme , Victoria Schleis

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

In the paper the complex geodesics of a convex domain in $\mathbb C^n$ are studied. One of the main results of the paper provides certain necessary condition for a holomorphic map to be a complex geodesic for a convex domain in $\mathbb…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Sylwester Zając , Paweł Zapałowski

Tropical curves in $\mathbb{R}^2$ correspond to metric planar graphs but not all planar graphs arise in this way. We describe several new classes of graphs which cannot occur. For instance, this yields a full combinatorial characterization…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Michael Joswig , Ayush Kumar Tewari

We formulate and prove an analogue of the balancing condition for the tropicalization of a curve in a torus bundle $X$. We find that the usual balancing condition fails when the bundle is non-trivial and that the failure is captured by the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Emily Dodwell

The map which takes a square matrix to its tropical eigenvalue-eigenvector pair is piecewise linear. We determine the cones of linearity of this map. They are simplicial but they do not form a fan. Motivated by statistical ranking, we also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Bernd Sturmfels , Ngoc Mai Tran

In a previous paper, we announced a formula to compute Gromov-Witten and Welschinger invariants of some toric varieties, in terms of combinatorial objects called floor diagrams. We give here detailed proofs in the tropical geometry…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Erwan Brugalle , Grigory Mikhalkin

In this text, we show that locally tropically convex tropical varieties in $\mathbb{R}^n$ have locally a canonical polyhedral structure that satisfies higher balancing conditions at all cells of positive codimension.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Emilio Assemany , Oliver Lorscheid

We study tropical line arrangements associated to a three-regular graph $G$ that we refer to as \emph{tropical graph curves}. Roughly speaking, the tropical graph curve associated to $G$, whose genus is $g$, is an arrangement of $2g-2$…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Madhusudan Manjunath

A plane cubic curve, defined over a field with valuation, is in honeycomb form if its tropicalization exhibits the standard hexagonal cycle. We explicitly compute such representations from a given j-invariant with negative valuation, we…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Melody Chan , Bernd Sturmfels

We enumerate rational curves in toric surfaces passing through points and satisfying cross-ratio constraints using tropical and combinatorial methods. Our starting point is arXiv:1509.07453, where a tropical-algebraic correspondence theorem…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Christoph Goldner

Given a tropical divisor $D$ in the intersection of two tropical plane curves, we study when it can be realized as the tropicalization of the intersection of two algebraic curves, and give a sufficient condition. We show that under a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Masayuki Sukenaga

In this paper we provide a characterization for a class of convex curves on the 3-sphere. More precisely, using a theorem that decomposes a locally convex curve on the 3-sphere as a pair of curves on the 2-sphere, one of which is locally…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Emília Alves