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A Tropical Approach To The Brill-Noether Theory Over Hurwitz Spaces, Kaelin Cook-Powell Jan 2021

A Tropical Approach To The Brill-Noether Theory Over Hurwitz Spaces, Kaelin Cook-Powell

Theses and Dissertations--Mathematics

The geometry of a curve can be analyzed in many ways. One way of doing this is to study the set of all divisors on a curve of prescribed rank and degree, known as a Brill-Noether variety. A sequence of results, starting in the 1980s, answered several fundamental questions about these varieties for general curves. However, many of these questions are still unanswered if we restrict to special families of curves. This dissertation has three main goals. First, we examine Brill-Noether varieties for these special families and provide combinatorial descriptions of their irreducible components. Second, we provide a natural generalization …


Klein Four Actions On Graphs And Sets, Darren B. Glass Jun 2017

Klein Four Actions On Graphs And Sets, Darren B. Glass

Math Faculty Publications

We consider how a standard theorem in algebraic geometry relating properties of a curve with a (ℤ/2ℤ)2-action to the properties of its quotients generalizes to results about sets and graphs that admit (ℤ/2ℤ)2-actions.


Cassini Ovals As Elliptic Curves, Nozomi Arakaki Jan 2012

Cassini Ovals As Elliptic Curves, Nozomi Arakaki

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to show that Cassini curves that are not lemniscates, when b does not equal 1, represent elliptic curves. It is also shown that the cross-ratios of these elliptic curves are either real numbers or represented by complex numbers on the unit circle on the conplex plane.


Mordell-Weil Theorem And The Rank Of Elliptical Curves, Hazem Khalfallah Jan 2007

Mordell-Weil Theorem And The Rank Of Elliptical Curves, Hazem Khalfallah

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis is to give a detailed group theoretic proof of the rank formula in a more general setting. By using the proof of Mordell-Weil theorem, a formula for the rank of the elliptical curves in certain cases over algebraic number fields can be obtained and computable.