Real loci in (log) Calabi-Yau manifolds via Kato-Nakayama spaces of toric degenerations (Q2049050)

Roughly, a toric degeneration is a family \(\delta\colon\mathcal{X}\to D^2\) of algebraic varieties whose central fiber \(\delta^{-1}(0)\) is a union of toric varieties glued along certain toric divisors. According to [\textit{M. Gross} and \textit{B. Siebert}, Ann. Math. (2) 174, No. 3, 1301--1428 (2011; Zbl 1266.53074)], infinitesimally a toric degeneration is recovered from its central fiber and an extra set of data, called a log-structure, but typically the algorithm is practically unmanageable. In the case where the central fiber is a toric log Calabi-Yau space, the author suggests an easy way to recover the topology of the degeneration in terms of the so-called Kato-Nakayama space [\textit{K. Kato} and \textit{C. Nakayama}, Kodai Math. J. 22, No. 2, 161--186 (1999; Zbl 0957.14015)]. The description is equipped with a structure of a torus fibration away from a certain discriminant locus. A special emphasis is put on the real version of the theory: a definition of a real structure on a toric log Calabi-Yau space is suggested, the existence and uniqueness of a real structure is discussed, and the corresponding real locus of the resulting Kato-Nakayama space is described in detail.