Bitangents of non-smooth tropical quartics

Heejong Lee; Yoav Len

doi:10.4171/pm/2011

Bitangents of non-smooth tropical quartics

Heejong Lee, Yoav Len

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We study bitangents of non-smooth tropical plane quartics. Our main result is that with appropriate multiplicities, every such curve has 7 equivalence classes of bitangent lines. Moreover, the multiplicity of bitangent lines varies continuously in families of tropical plane curves.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	67-78
Journal	Portugaliae Mathematica
Volume	75
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4171/pm/2011
Publication status	Published - 5 Jul 2018

Keywords

Tropical geometry
Quartic curves
Bitangent lines
Jacobians
Moduli of curves

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