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Bitangents of tropical plane quartic curves
We study smooth tropical plane quartic curves and show that they satisfy
certain properties analogous to (but also different from) smooth plane quartics
in algebraic geometry. For example, we show that every such curve admits either
infinitely many or exactly 7 bitangent lines. We also prove that a smooth
tropical plane quartic curve cannot be hyperelliptic.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures. Minor revisions; accepted for publication in
Mathematische Zeitschrif
Notes on TQFT Wire Models and Coherence Equations for SU(3) Triangular Cells
After a summary of the TQFT wire model formalism we bridge the gap from
Kuperberg equations for SU(3) spiders to Ocneanu coherence equations for
systems of triangular cells on fusion graphs that describe modules associated
with the fusion category of SU(3) at level k. We show how to solve these
equations in a number of examples.Comment: 44 figure
A geometric approach to free variable loop equations in discretized theories of 2D gravity
We present a self-contained analysis of theories of discrete 2D gravity
coupled to matter, using geometric methods to derive equations for generating
functions in terms of free (noncommuting) variables. For the class of discrete
gravity theories which correspond to matrix models, our method is a
generalization of the technique of Schwinger-Dyson equations and is closely
related to recent work describing the master field in terms of noncommuting
variables; the important differences are that we derive a single equation for
the generating function using purely graphical arguments, and that the approach
is applicable to a broader class of theories than those described by matrix
models. Several example applications are given here, including theories of
gravity coupled to a single Ising spin (), multiple Ising spins (), a general class of two-matrix models which includes the Ising theory and
its dual, the three-state Potts model, and a dually weighted graph model which
does not admit a simple description in terms of matrix models.Comment: 40 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX; final publication versio
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