2 papers
math.CO2014
Sandpiles, spanning trees, and plane duality
Melody Chan, Darren Glass, Matthew Macauley +3
Let G be a connected, loopless multigraph. The sandpile group of G is a finite abelian group associated to G whose order is equal to the number of spanning trees in G. Holroyd et a…
math.AG2012
Elliptic curves in honeycomb form
Melody Chan, Bernd Sturmfels
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 representati…