English

Discrete and metric divisorial gonality can be different

Combinatorics 2021-07-07 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

This paper compares the divisorial gonality of a finite graph GG to the divisorial gonality of the associated metric graph Γ(G,1)\Gamma(G,\mathbb{1}) with unit lengths. We show that dgon(Γ(G,1))\text{dgon}(\Gamma(G,\mathbb{1})) is equal to the minimal divisorial gonality of all regular subdivisions of GG, and we provide a class of graphs for which this number is strictly smaller than the divisorial gonality of GG. This settles a conjecture of M. Baker in the negative.

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@article{arxiv.2106.12568,
  title  = {Discrete and metric divisorial gonality can be different},
  author = {Josse van Dobben de Bruyn and Harry Smit and Marieke van der Wegen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.12568},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages, 4 figures. Changes: improved Lemma 4.4, added Proposition 5.3, changed open question 2

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