English

Non-Archimedean and tropical theta functions

Algebraic Geometry 2018-01-22 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We define a tropicalization procedure for theta functions on abelian varieties over a non-Archimedean field. We show that the tropicalization of a non-Archimedean theta function is a tropical theta function, and that the tropicalization of a non-Archimedean Riemann theta function is a tropical Riemann theta function, up to scaling and an additive constant. We apply these results to the construction of rational functions with prescribed behavior on the skeleton of a principally polarized abelian variety. We work with the Raynaud--Bosch--L\"utkebohmert theory of non-Archimedean theta functions for abelian varieties with semi-abelian reduction.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.08212,
  title  = {Non-Archimedean and tropical theta functions},
  author = {Tyler Foster and Joseph Rabinoff and Farbod Shokrieh and Alejandro Soto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.08212},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Final version to appear in Mathematische Annalen. Full-text view-only journal version is available at http://rdcu.be/E5tM . Note the journal version has a slightly different numbering system

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