Projective duals to algebraic and tropical hypersurfaces
Algebraic Geometry
2019-11-26 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
We study a tropical analogue of the projective dual variety of a hypersurface. When is a curve in or a surface in , we provide an explicit description of in terms of , as long as is smooth and satisfies a mild genericity condition. As a consequence, when is a curve we describe the transformation of Newton polygons under projective duality, and recover classical formulas for the degree of a dual plane curve. For higher dimensional hypersurfaces , we give a partial description of .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.08912,
title = {Projective duals to algebraic and tropical hypersurfaces},
author = {Nathan Ilten and Yoav Len},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.08912},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
47 pages, 13 figures; v2 minor revisions; accepted to PLMS