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Forms on Berkovich spaces based on harmonic tropicalizations

Algebraic Geometry 2025-03-10 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

We introduce tropical skeletons for Berkovich spaces based on results of Ducros. Then we study harmonic functions on good strictly analytic spaces over a non-trivially valued non-Archimedean field. Chambert-Loir and Ducros introduced bigraded sheaves of smooth real-valued differential forms on Berkovich spaces by pulling back Lagerberg forms with respect to tropicalization maps. We give a new approach in which we allow pullback by more general harmonic tropicalizations to get a larger sheaf of differential forms with essentially the same properties, but with a better cohomological behavior. A crucial ingredient is that tropical varieties arising from harmonic tropicalization maps are balanced.

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@article{arxiv.2111.05741,
  title  = {Forms on Berkovich spaces based on harmonic tropicalizations},
  author = {Walter Gubler and Philipp Jell and Joseph Rabinoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05741},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

87 pages, 2 figures. Added exposition and examples to improve readability, including: Remark 3.14, Example 3.15, Example 3.22, Example 4.3, Example 4.16, Example 5.3, Example 11.7, Example 11.8. Final published version

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