Coamoebas of complex algebraic plane curves and the logarithmic Gauss map.pdf

COAMOEBAS OF COMPLEX ALGEBRAIC PLANE CURVES AND THE LOGARITHMIC GAUSS MAP MOUNIR NISSE Abstract. The coamoeba of any complex algebraic plane curve V is its image in the real torus under the argument map. The area counted with multiplicity of the coamoeba of any algebraic curve in (C?)2 is bounded in terms of the degree of the curve. We show in this Note that up to multiplication by a constant in (C?)2, the complex algebraic plane curves whose coamoebas are of maximal area (counted with multiplicity) are dened over R, and their real loci are Harnack curves possibly with ordinary real isolated double points (c.f. [MR-00]). In addition, we characterize the complex algebraic plane curves such that their coamoebas contain no extra-piece. Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Preliminaries 3 3. Area Counted with Multiplicity of Coamoebas and the Alga map 6 4. Characterization of Coamoebas of Plane Curves Without Extra-Piece 8 References 9 1. Introduction There is a very strong relationship between the amoeba and coamoeba of a complex algebraic hypersurface. Given an amoeba of a hypersurface, it is well known by Mikael Passare and Hans Rullg?rd [PR-04] that the spine of the amoeba is equipped with a structure of tropical hypersurface which is dual to some convex subdivision of the Newton polytope. We also know that amoeba reaches innity by several tentacles [V2-02]. The coamoeba covers the hyperplanes orthogonal to the external edges of some subdivision of the Newton polytope by several extra-pieces . An extra-piece goes away from some hyperplane orthogonal to some inner edge of the subdivision of the Newton polytope. These hyperplanes are equipped with a frames spanned by the normal vectors to the sides of the element of the subdivision containing those edges, and these frames determine the position of the coamoeba relatively to these hyperplanes. The purpose of this Note is to describe the relations and the similarities which exist between amoebas and coamoebas of complex alge