Canonical divisors on positive subdivisions #
The canonical coefficient at a core vertex is its incidence degree minus two; every subdivision-interior coefficient is zero. Thus leaflessness can be checked on the finite core. Degree and rank depend only on the numbers of core vertices and slots. In particular a connected specification with one more slot than core vertices has a canonical divisor of degree two and rank one.
The valence calculations are reused from Utilities.Gluing.CycleRigidity.
All statements here concern positive SubdivisionGraph.Spec objects, not
contracted zero-length faces.
Riemann--Roch gives the canonical divisor rank on every connected graph.
The graph valence of a core vertex is its occurrence-sensitive incidence degree. Parallel slots are counted separately.
An effective canonical divisor on a positive subdivision is exactly the condition that every core incidence degree is at least two.
Core leaflessness makes the canonical divisor effective, uniformly in all positive edge lengths.
The canonical degree is determined by the finite core counts.
On a connected positive subdivision, the canonical rank is determined by the finite core counts.
One more slot than core vertices gives canonical degree two.
The canonical divisor of a connected genus-two subdivision has rank
one, including every connected Spec 4 5.
Package the effective canonical pencil needed for a leafless genus-two factor in a gluing construction.