Moduli of stable maps in genus one and logarithmic geometry. II (Q2329141)

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.