Sharpness conjecture for tropical gonality bounds of lattice polygons

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Let Δ⊂R2\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 f∈C[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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