Normalization of tropicalizations of singular curves

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Let CC be an irreducible affine algebraic curve with one singular point. Suppose CC is embedded with ideal IK[x1,,xn]I\subseteq K[x_1,\ldots,x_n], and set

A=S[x1,,xn]/Bend(tropI),R=Frac(A).A=S[x_1,\ldots,x_n]/\operatorname{Bend}(\operatorname{trop} I),\qquad R=\operatorname{Frac}(A).

Let AV\overline{A}^{\mathrm{V}} denote the valuative integral closure of AA in RR, and let B=K[x1,,xn]/IB=K[x_1,\ldots,x_n]/I.

Normalization conjecture for tropical curves. There is an embedding of CC with an ideal II having the property that the integral closure of BB in its field of fractions is obtained by adjoining to BB lifts of the elements of AV\A\overline{A}^{\mathrm{V}}\backslash A.

This predicts that, for a suitable embedding, normalization of the algebraic curve can be recovered from the valuative integral closure of the corresponding tropical coordinate semiring. The examples discussed in the source support the claim for tropicalizations of curves with a unique singular point at the origin, but the general assertion remains open.

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Netanel Friedenberg and Kalina Mincheva, “Integral closure for (additively idempotent) semirings”, arXiv:2607.11219 (2026).

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