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Spherical tropical curves are balanced

Algebraic Geometry 2025-05-09 v1

Abstract

One of the characterizing features of tropicalizations of curves in an algebraic torus is that they are balanced. Tevelev and Vogiannou introduced a spherical tropicalization map for spherical homogeneous spaces G/HG/H, where GG is a reductive group. This map generalizes the tropicalization map for algebraic tori. We prove a balancing condition for spherical tropicalizations of curves in G/HG/H that generalizes the balancing condition for tropicalizations of curves contained in an algebraic torus. We give examples and describe the relationship with Andreas Gross's balancing condition for tropicalizations of subvarieties of toroidal embeddings.

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@article{arxiv.2505.04839,
  title  = {Spherical tropical curves are balanced},
  author = {Desmond Coles},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04839},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages, 3 figures

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