%0 Journal Article
%T Elliptic curves in honeycomb form
%A Melody Chan
%A Bernd Sturmfels
%J Mathematics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%X A plane cubic curve, defined over a field with valuation, is in honeycomb form if its tropicalization exhibits the standard hexagonal cycle. We explicitly compute such representations from a given j-invariant with negative valuation, we give an analytic characterization of elliptic curves in honeycomb form, and we offer a detailed analysis of the tropical group law on such a curve.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2356v1