Moduli of stable maps in genus one and logarithmic geometry. II (Q2329141): Difference between revisions

The main topic of this article is the relationship between the realizability problem for tropical curves of genus one in a torus and the moduli space of logarithmic stable maps to a suitable toric variety. This is the second part of a series of two articles. In the first part [Geom. Topol. 23, No. 7, 3315--3366 (2019; Zbl 1472.14062)], the authors gave a modular reinterpretation of the Vakil-Zinger blow-ups of the moduli space of stable maps of genus one to projective space using tropical methods. In this second part they expand on these tropical methods and provide a full solution to the realizability problem for tropical curves of genus one in a torus. The main ingredient for their result is the so-called well-spacedness condition, that in a slightly different sense goes back to the work Speyer. The central result is that the moduli space of logarithmic stable maps of genus one, whose tropicalization is well-spaced, is proper and logarithmically smooth, and admits a natural proper birational morphism to the moduli space of logarithmic stable maps. This leads to a determination of the non-Archimedean skeleton of the Berkovich analytification of the moduli space of smooth maps to \(\mathbb{G}_m^n\), which, in turn, can be seen as the natural generality to state and solve the realizability problem for tropical curves of genus one in a torus.