Projective duals to algebraic and tropical hypersurfaces
Abstract
We study a tropical analogue of the projective dual variety of a hypersurface. When $X$ is a curve in $\mathbb{P}^2$ or a surface in $\mathbb{P}^3$, we provide an explicit description of $\text{Trop}(X^*)$ in terms of $\text{Trop}(X)$, as long as $\text{Trop}(X)$ is smooth and satisfies a mild genericity condition. As a consequence, when $X$ 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 $X$, we give a partial description of $\text{Trop}(X^*)$.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- March 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1803.08912
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1803.08912
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv180308912I
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry;
- Mathematics - Combinatorics;
- 14T05;
- 14J70;
- 14M99;
- 14N20
- E-Print:
- 47 pages, 13 figures