Divisors on metric graphs and constructing tropicalizations of Mumford curves

Series
Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Time
Friday, March 15, 2019 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Trevor Gunn – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Trevor Gunn
I will introduce briefly the notion of Berkovich analytic spaces and certain metric graphs associated to them called the skeleton. Then we will describe divisors on metric graphs and a lifting theorem that allows us to find tropicalizations of curves in P^3. This is joint work with Philipp Jell.