On the addition formula for the tropical Hesse pencil

Abstract

We give the addition formula for the tropical Hesse pencil, which is the tropicalization of the Hesse pencil parametrized by the level-three theta functions, via those for the ultradiscrete theta functions. The ultradiscrete theta functions are reduced from the level-three theta functions through the procedure of ultradiscretization by choosing their parameters appropriately. The parametrization of the level-three theta functions firstly introduced in \cite{KKNT09} gives an explicit correspondence between the amoeba of the real part of the Hesse cubic curve and the tropical Hesse curve. Moreover, through the parametrization, we obtain the subtraction-free forms of the addition formulae for the level-three theta functions, which lead to the addition formula for the tropical Hesse pencil in terms of the ultradiscretization. Using the parametrization, the tropical counterpart of the Hesse configuration is also given.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figure