Bitangents of tropical plane quartic curves
Abstract
We study smooth tropical plane quartic curves and show that they satisfy certain properties analogous to (but also different from) smooth plane quartics in algebraic geometry. For example, we show that every such curve admits either infinitely many or exactly 7 bitangent lines. We also prove that a smooth tropical plane quartic curve cannot be hyperelliptic.
Citation
Baker , M , Len , Y , Morrison , R , Pflueger , N & Ren , Q 2016 , ' Bitangents of tropical plane quartic curves ' , Mathematische Zeitschrift , vol. 282 , no. 3-4 , pp. 1017–1031 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00209-015-1576-7
Publication
Mathematische Zeitschrift
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1432-1823Type
Journal article
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