Construction of tropical morphisms from tropical modifications of nonhyperelliptic genus 3 metric graphs with tree gonality 3 to metric trees

Abstract

In this article, we look into the tree gonality of genus $3$ metric graphs $\Gamma$ which is defined as the minimum of degrees of all tropical morphisms from any tropical modification of $\Gamma$ to any metric tree. It is denoted by tgon$(\Gamma)$ and is at most $3$. We define hyperelliptic metric graphs in terms of tropical morphisms and tree gonality. Let $\Gamma$ be a genus $3$ metric graph with tgon$(\Gamma) = 3$ which is not hyperelliptic. In this paper, for such metric graphs $\Gamma$, we construct a tropical modification $\Gamma'$ of $\Gamma$, a metric tree $T$ and a tropical map $\varphi:\Gamma' \to T$ of degree $3$.