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Tropicalization is a non-Archimedean analytic stack quotient

Algebraic Geometry 2016-07-26 v3

Abstract

For a complex toric variety XX the logarithmic absolute value induces a natural retraction of XX onto the set of its non-negative points and this retraction can be identified with a quotient of X(C)X(\mathbb{C}) by its big real torus. We prove an analogous result in the non-Archimedean world: The Kajiwara-Payne tropicalization map is a non-Archimedean analytic stack quotient of XanX^{an} by its big affinoid torus. Along the way, we provide foundations for a geometric theory of non-Archimedean analytic stacks, particularly focussing on analytic groupoids and their quotients, the process of analytification, and the underlying topological spaces of analytic stacks.

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@article{arxiv.1410.2216,
  title  = {Tropicalization is a non-Archimedean analytic stack quotient},
  author = {Martin Ulirsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.2216},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages, 1 figure, minor mathematical changes, merged Sections 3.2 and 3.3 and improved exposition, to appear in Math. Res. Letters

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