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Refined curve counting with tropical geometry

2015; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 152; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1112/s0010437x1500754x

1570-5846

Florian Block, Lothar Göttsche,

Commutative Algebra and Its Applications

The Severi degree is the degree of the Severi variety parametrizing plane curves of degree d with delta nodes. Recently, G\"ottsche and Shende gave two refinements of Severi degrees, polynomials in a variable y, which are conjecturally equal, for large d. At y = 1, one of the refinements, the relative Severi degree, specializes to the (non-relative) Severi degree. We give a tropical description of the refined Severi degrees, in terms of a refined tropical curve count for all toric surfaces. We also refine the equivalent count of floor diagrams for Hirzebruch and rational ruled surfaces. Our description implies that, for fixed delta, the refined Severi degrees are polynomials in d and y, for large d. As a consequence, we show that, for delta <= 10 and all d, both refinements of G\"ottsche and Shende agree and equal our refined counts of tropical curves and floor diagrams.