Realizability of tropical canonical divisors

  • Martin Möller

    Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Martin Ulirsch

    Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Annette Werner

    Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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Abstract

We use recent results by Bainbridge–Chen–Gendron–Grushevsky–Möller on compactifications of strata of abelian differentials to give a comprehensive solution to the realizability problem for effective tropical canonical divisors in equicharacteristic zero. Given a pair (Γ,D)(\Gamma, D) consisting of a stable tropical curve Γ\Gamma and a divisor DD in the canonical linear system on Γ\Gamma, we give a purely combinatorial condition to decide whether there is a smooth curve XX over a non-Archimedean field whose stable reduction has Γ\Gamma as its dual tropical curve together with an effective canonical divisor KXK_X that specializes to DD.

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Martin Möller, Martin Ulirsch, Annette Werner, Realizability of tropical canonical divisors. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 23 (2021), no. 1, pp. 185–217

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1009