Tropical Severi Varieties and Applications

The main topic of this thesis is the tropicalizations of Severi varieties, which we call tropical Severi varieties. Severi varieties are classical objects in algebraic geometry. They are parameter spaces of plane nodal curves. On the other hand, tropicalization is an operation defined in tropical ge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang, Jihyeon
Other Authors: Khovanskii, Askold
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34976