Tropical Möbius strips and ruled surfaces
[Rubans de Möbius tropicaux et surfaces réglées]
Annales de la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse : Mathématiques, Série 6, Tome 35 (2026) no. 2, pp. 297-350

We consider the enumeration of tropical curves in Möbius strips for two different lattice structures and relate them to the enumeration of curves in two rational ruled surfaces over a complex elliptic curve. Using this correspondence, we prove regularity results such as the piecewise quasi-polynomiality of relative invariants and the quasi-modularity of their generating series.

On étudie dans ce papier l’énumération des courbes tropicales dans un ruban de Möbius pour deux structures affines entières distinctes. Cette dernière est reliée à l’énumération des courbes complexes dans certaines surfaces réglées sur une courbe elliptique. En utilisant cette correspondance, on montre des propriétés de quasi-polynomialité de quasi-modularité des séries génératrices des invariants obtenus.

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DOI : 10.5802/afst.1848
Classification : 14N10, 14T90, 05A15, 14H99
Keywords: Enumerative geometry, tropical refined invariants, relative invariants, floor diagrams

Thomas Blomme  1   ; Victoria Schleis  2

1 Université de Genève, 5-7 rue du Conseil Général, 1205 Genève, Switzerland
2 Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Thomas Blomme; Victoria Schleis. Tropical Möbius strips and ruled surfaces. Annales de la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse : Mathématiques, Série 6, Tome 35 (2026) no. 2, pp. 297-350. doi: 10.5802/afst.1848
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