Chip Firing Games and Riemann-Roch Properties for Directed Graphs

The following presents a brief introduction to tropical geometry, especially tropical curves, and explains a connection to graph theory. We also give a brief summary of the Riemann-Roch property for graphs, established by Baker and Norine (2007), as well as the tools used in their proof. Various gen...

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Main Author: Gaslowitz, Joshua Z
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2013
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/42
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=hmc_theses