Tropical Surface Singularities

Hannah Markwig, Thomas Markwig, Eugenii Shustin

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Abstract

In this paper, we study tropicalizations of singular surfaces in toric threefolds. We completely classify singular tropical surfaces of maximal-dimensional geometric type, show that they can generically have only finitely many singular points, and describe all possible locations of singular points. More precisely, we show that singular points must be either vertices, or generalized midpoints and barycenters of certain faces of singular tropical surfaces, and, in some case, there may be additional metric restrictions to faces of singular tropical surfaces.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)879-914
Number of pages36
JournalDiscrete and Computational Geometry
Volume48
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2012

Keywords

  • Discriminants
  • Regular subdivisions of lattice polytopes
  • Singularities
  • Tropical geometry

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Geometry and Topology
  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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