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Arithmetical Graphs, Riemann-Roch Structure For Lattices, And The Frobenius Number Problem, Jeremy Usatine Jan 2014

Arithmetical Graphs, Riemann-Roch Structure For Lattices, And The Frobenius Number Problem, Jeremy Usatine

HMC Senior Theses

If R is a list of positive integers with greatest common denominator equal to 1, calculating the Frobenius number of R is in general NP-hard. Dino Lorenzini defines the arithmetical graph, which naturally arises in arithmetic geometry, and a notion of genus, the g-number, that in specific cases coincides with the Frobenius number of R. A result of Dino Lorenzini's gives a method for quickly calculating upper bounds for the g-number of arithmetical graphs. We discuss the arithmetic geometry related to arithmetical graphs and present an example of an arithmetical graph that arises in this context. We also discuss the …


Lines In Tropical Quadrics, Kevin O'Neill May 2013

Lines In Tropical Quadrics, Kevin O'Neill

HMC Senior Theses

Classical algebraic geometry is the study of curves, surfaces, and other varieties defined as the zero set of polynomial equations. Tropical geometry is a branch of algebraic geometry based on the tropical semiring with operations minimization and addition. We introduce the notions of projective space and tropical projective space, which are well-suited for answering enumerative questions, like ours. We attempt to describe the set of tropical lines contained in a tropical quadric surface in $\mathbb{TP}^3$. Analogies with the classical problem and computational techniques based on the idea of a tropical parameterization suggest that the answer is the union of two …


Group Actions And Divisors On Tropical Curves, Max B. Kutler May 2011

Group Actions And Divisors On Tropical Curves, Max B. Kutler

HMC Senior Theses

Tropical geometry is algebraic geometry over the tropical semiring, or min-plus algebra. In this thesis, I discuss the basic geometry of plane tropical curves. By introducing the notion of abstract tropical curves, I am able to pass to a more abstract metric-topological setting. In this setting, I discuss divisors on tropical curves. I begin a study of $G$-invariant divisors and divisor classes.