Sharpness conjecture for tropical gonality bounds of lattice polygons

Let ΔR2\Delta\subset\mathbb{R}^2 be a two-dimensional lattice polygon. A regular subdivision Δ1,,Δr\Delta_1,\ldots,\Delta_r determines a metric graph Γ(Δ1,,Δr)\Gamma(\Delta_1,\ldots,\Delta_r), and U(f)U(f) denotes the curve associated with a Laurent polynomial ff. Sharpness conjecture. There is a regular subdivision Δ1,,Δr\Delta_1,\ldots,\Delta_r of Δ\Delta such that the set of irreducible Laurent polynomials fC[x±1,y±1]f\in\mathbb{C}[x^{\pm 1},y^{\pm 1}] with Δ(f)=Δ\Delta(f)=\Delta and with the gonality of U(f)U(f) equal to the gonality of Γ(Δ1,,Δr)\Gamma(\Delta_1,\ldots,\Delta_r) is Zariski dense in the space of Laurent polynomials with Δ(f)Δ\Delta(f)\subset\Delta. This conjecture is stated as the expected sharpness of the lower bound obtained from metric graphs and is known in the special case Δ=2Υ\Delta=2\Upsilon; the general assertion remains open.

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Wouter Castryck and Filip Cools, “Newton polygons and curve gonalities”, arXiv:1106.3762 (2012).

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