English

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 XX is a curve in P2\mathbb{P}^2 or a surface in P3\mathbb{P}^3, we provide an explicit description of Trop(X)\text{Trop}(X^*) in terms of Trop(X)\text{Trop}(X), as long as Trop(X)\text{Trop}(X) is smooth and satisfies a mild genericity condition. As a consequence, when XX 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 XX, we give a partial description of Trop(X)\text{Trop}(X^*).

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@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

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