Seminar in Real and Complex Geometry

Thursday, March 20, 2025, 16:15-17:45, online via zoom




Thomas Blomme
(Université de Neuchatel)

A short proof of the multiple cover formula


Abstract
             

Enumerating genus g curves passing through g points in an abelian surface is a natural problem, whose difficulty highly depends on the degree of the curves. For "primitive" degrees, we have an easy explicit answer. For "divisible" classes, such a resolution is quite demanding and often out of reach. Yet, the invariants for divisible classes easily express in terms of the invariants for primitive classes through the multiple cover formula, conjectured by G. Oberdieck a few years ago. In this talk, we'll show how tropical geometry enables to prove the formula without any kind of concrete enumeration.