Cette thèse présente la construction de courbes tropicales réelles dans R^3 dont la projectivisation, qui est un entrelacs projectif dans IRP^3, est constituée de 2 composantes, I'une étant isotope à un noeud donné au départ. Dans le cas de certains noeuds toriques, il est possible de modifier cette construction pour que I'entrelacs projectif correspondant ait une seule composante isotope au noeud torique considéré. Pour chacune de ces courbes tropicales réelles, nous faisons appel au théorème récent de G. Mikhalkin, qui affirme l'existence d'une algébrique réelle non singulière dans IRP^3, de même genre et degré que la courbe tropicale réelle considérée, et qui est isotope à l'entrelacs projectif correspondant. / In this thesis, we construct real tropical curves in R^3 whose projectivization - which is a projective link in RP^3 - has 2connected components, one of them being isotopic to a given knot. For some torus knots, it is possible to modify thetropical construction such that the corresponding projective link is a knot (with a single component) isotopic to the giventorus knot. For each of these real tropical curve, we use a recent result of G. Mikhalkin, asserting the existence of a realnon singular algebraic curve in RP^3, of the same genus and degree as the real tropical curve, and isotopic to thecorresponding projective link.

在這篇論文裡，我們研究Baker-Norine的搬硬幣遊戲，並且把這個遊戲應用在離散型的熱帶因子上。特別地，我們去探討這個遊戲與等價熱帶因子之間的關係。最後我們證明了下面的定理:若$D, E$為熱帶曲線$\Gamma$上的離散型熱帶因子, 而$\overline{D}$, $\overline{E}$分別代表因子$D,E$在搬硬幣遊戲時的狀態，因子$D$與$E$等價,若且為若 $\overline{D}$可經搬硬幣遊戲變成$\overline{E}$。 / In this thesis, we study Baker-Norine's chip-firing game, and apply it to discrete tropical divisors. In particularly, we discuss the relationship between this game and the equivalence of divisors. Finally, we give a proof of the theorem: Let $D$ and $E$ be discrete tropical divisors of tropical curve $\Gamma$, and let $\overline{D}$ and $\overline{E}$ be corresponding configurations of the chip-firing game. The divisors $D$ and $E$ are equivalent if and only if $\overline{D}$ can be transformed into $\overline{E}$.

In this thesis we study the properties of Lagrangian matroids of dessins d'enfants (also known as maps on orientable surfaces) and their behaviour under the action of the absolute Galois group Gal(Q). We show that while the Lagrangian matroid of a dessin itself is not invariant under this action, some of its properties, namely its width and parity, are. We also study the partial duals of a dessin and their Lagrangian matroids and show that certain partial duals can always be defined over their field of moduli. We prove some results on the representations of Lagrangian matroids as well. A relationship between dessins, their partial duals and tropical curves arising from monodromy groups of dessins is observed.

Chip-firing is a deceptively simple game played on the vertices of a graph, which was independently discovered in probability theory, poset theory, graph theory, and statistical physics. In recent years, chip-firing has been employed in the development of a theory of divisors on graphs analogous to the classical theory for Riemann surfaces. In particular, Baker and Norin were able to use this set up to prove a combinatorial Riemann-Roch formula, whose classical counterpart is one of the cornerstones of modern algebraic geometry. It is now understood that the relationship between divisor theory for graphs and algebraic curves goes beyond pure analogy, and the primary operation for making this connection precise is tropicalization, a certain type of degeneration which allows us to treat graphs as “combinatorial shadows” of curves. The development of this tropical relationship between graphs and algebraic curves has allowed for beautiful applications of chip-firing to both algebraic geometry and number theory. In this thesis we continue the combinatorial development of divisor theory for graphs. In Chapter 1 we give an overview of the history of chip-firing and its connections to algebraic geometry. In Chapter 2 we describe a reinterpretation of chip-firing in the language of partial graph orientations and apply this setup to give a new proof of the Riemann-Roch formula. We introduce and investigate transfinite chip-firing, and chip-firing with respect to open covers in Chapters 3 and 4 respectively. Chapter 5 represents joint work with Arash Asadi, where we investigate Riemann-Roch theory for directed graphs and arithmetical graphs, the latter of which are a special class of balanced vertex weighted graphs arising naturally in arithmetic geometry.