Intrinsic features of the Newton polygon

A sufficiently generic bivariate Laurent polynomial with given Newton polygon Delta defines an algebraic curve C, many of whose numerical invariants are encoded in the combinatorics of Delta. These include the genus (classical), the gonality, the Clifford index and the Clifford dimension (an enhancement of recent results by Kawaguchi), the scrollar invariants and, for sufficiently nice instances of Delta, certain secondary scrollar invariants that were introduced by Schreyer (new observation). After discussing these invariants, we study to what extent they allow one to reconstruct Delta from the abstract geometry of C.