Gonality and edge subdivisions

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How does gonality change if each edge of the graph is subdivided k times? [1]

Remarks

  • van Dobben de Bruyn, Smit, and van der Wegen shows that the gonality can change upon subdivision: They show an infinite family of graphs where the subdivision of each edge by a vertex can decrease gonality [1]. However, they pose the question if the ratio of the gonalities can be bounded, or if the gonality can change upon subdividing each edge into k segments for an odd k.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Josse van Dobben de Bruyn, Harry Smit, Marieke van der Wegen, Discrete and metric divisorial gonality can be different (2021) ArXiv Link