Séminaire de Géométrie Tropicale

Institut Mathématiques de Jussieu ,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6
UMR CNRS 7586




09 Novembre 2011, 16h15 salle 1516-413



Florian Block (Université de Warwick)

Résumé : Refining Node Polynomials for Plane Curves
According to the Goettsche Conjecture (now a theorem), the degree of the Severi variety of plane curves of degree d with delta nodes is given by a (node) polynomial N_delta(d) in d, provided d is large enough. Recently, Goettsche and Shende conjectured the existence of "refined" node polynomials N_delta(d; y), which specialize at y = 1 to N_delta(d), and at y = -1 to Welschinger numbers of the complex projective plane.
In this talk, I discuss a construction of such polynomials using tropical geometry and some of their properties.