The following are worksheets created for the graduate summer school on chip-firing games and tropical curves at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. The school was taught by Matt Baker, Dave Jensen, and Sam Payne. Yoav Len and Dhruv Ranganathan were the teaching assistants.Â
Problem Set I: Dhar's Burning Algorithm and Riemann-Roch
Problem Set II: Special Divisors on a Chain of Loops
Problem Set III: The Specialization Lemma
Problem Set IV: Rank Determining Sets (Coming Soon)
Problem Set V: Valuation Theory and Berkovich Curves (Coming Soon)
Problem Set VI: Linear Systems on Metric Graphs
Problem Set VII: Inverse Limits of Skeletons (Coming Soon)
Problem Set VIII: The Matrix Tree Theorem (Coming Soon)