Analytic geometry of tropicalization, with applications to curves

Seminar: 
Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 12:30pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
431DL
Speaker: 
Sam Payne
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

I will discuss the relationship between the nonarchimedean analytification of an algebraic variety and the tropicalizations of its various embeddings in toric varieties, with attention to the metrics on both sides in the special case of curves. This is joint work with Matt Baker and Joe Rabinoff.