The conjecture on tritangent planes to tropical sextic curves

Let Γ\Gamma be a tropical sextic curve of genus 44 in R3\mathbb{R}^3. Two tritangent planes to Γ\Gamma are equivalent when they determine equivalent tangency divisors on Γ\Gamma. Tritangent-plane conjecture. Every tropical sextic curve of genus 44 in R3\mathbb{R}^3 has exactly 1515 equivalence classes of tritangent planes. The preceding theorem proves the upper bound of 1515, and proves equality when the tropical curve is the tropicalization of a sextic on a smooth quadric in P3\mathbb{P}^3; the conjecture asserts equality without that algebraizability hypothesis.

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Corey Harris and Yoav Len, “Tritangent planes to space sextics: the algebraic and tropical stories”, arXiv:1701.02353 (2017).

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