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The moduli space of Harnack curves in toric surfaces

Part of: Curves Special varieties Polytopes and polyhedra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

Jorge Alberto Olarte Open the ORCID record for Jorge Alberto Olarte [Opens in a new window]
Jorge Alberto Olarte*
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Berlin, Germany; E-mail: olarte@math.tu-berlin.de

Abstract

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In 2006, Kenyon and Okounkov Kenyon and Okounkov [12] computed the moduli space of Harnack curves of degree d in ${\mathbb {C}\mathbb {P}}^2$. We generalise their construction to any projective toric surface and show that the moduli space ${\mathcal {H}_\Delta }$ of Harnack curves with Newton polygon $\Delta $ is diffeomorphic to ${\mathbb {R}}^{m-3}\times {\mathbb {R}}_{\geq 0}^{n+g-m}$, where $\Delta $ has m edges, g interior lattice points and n boundary lattice points. This solves a conjecture of Crétois and Lang. The main result uses abstract tropical curves to construct a compactification of this moduli space where additional points correspond to collections of curves that can be patchworked together to produce a curve in ${\mathcal {H}_\Delta }$. This compactification has a natural stratification with the same poset as the secondary polytope of $\Delta $.

MSC classification

Primary: 14H50: Plane and space curves
Secondary: 14H10: Families, moduli (algebraic) 14M25: Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra 52B20: Lattice polytopes (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry)
Type
Algebraic and Complex Geometry
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Forum of Mathematics, Sigma , Volume 9 , 2021 , e43
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