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On Tropical Intersection Theory

Algebraic Geometry 2022-08-30 v3

Abstract

We develop a tropical intersection formalism of forms and currents that extends classical tropical intersection theory in two ways. First, it allows to work with arbitrary polytopes, also non-rational ones. Second, it allows for smooth differential forms as coefficients. The intersection product in our formalism can be defined through the diagonal intersection method of Allermann--Rau or the fan displacement rule. We prove with a limiting argument that both definitions agree.

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@article{arxiv.2107.12067,
  title  = {On Tropical Intersection Theory},
  author = {Andreas Mihatsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12067},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

22 pages, two noteworthy changes: added the definition of pullback for non-surjective maps (Def. 4.2), changed the sign of the boundary integral and boundary operator to conform with the literature convention ({\S}2.4, Def. 3.4)

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