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In this paper, we study tropicalisations of families of plane curves with a singularity in a fixed point. The tropicalisation of such a family is a linear tropical variety. We describe its maximal dimensional cones using results about linear tropical varieties. We show that a singularity tropicalises either to a vertex of higher valence or of higher multiplicity, or to an edge of higher weight. We then classify maximal dimensional types of singular tropical curves. For those, the singularity is either a crossing of two edges, or a 3-valent vertex of multiplicity 3, or a point on an edge of weight 2 whose distances to the neighbouring vertices satisfy a certain metric condition. We also study generic singular tropical curves enhanced with refined tropical limits and construct canonical simple parameterisations for them, explaining the above metric condition.
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Markwig, H., Markwig, T. & Shustin, E. Tropical curves with a singularity in a fixed point. manuscripta math. 137, 383–418 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-011-0471-8
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