Skeletal filtrations of the fundamental group of a non-Archimedean curve (Q6076331)

The author studies tropicalizations of residually tame coverings \(\phi:X'\rightarrow{X}\) of curves, which are finite morphisms of smooth algebraic curves with an extra tameness condition on the induced analytification morphism \(\phi^{\text{an}} :X'^{\text{an}}\rightarrow X^{\text{an}}\). That is, the author studies skeleta of residually tame coverings of a marked curve over a non-archimedean field. He generalizes a certain result by proving a simultaneous semistable reduction theorem for residually tame coverings. This result is then used to construct a functor from the category of residually tame coverings of a marked curve \((X,D)\) to the category of tame coverings of a metrized complex \(\Sigma\) associated to \((X,D)\). The latter category is enhanced by adding a set of gluing data to every covering and the author shows that this yields an equivalence of categories. Using this equivalence, filtrations of the fundamental group of the marked curve are defined, giving the absolute decomposition and inertia groups of the metrized complex. The analytic slope formula is then used to prove that the extensions that arise from the abelianizations of the decomposition and inertia quotients coincide with the extensions that arise from the toric and connected parts of the analytic Jacobian of the curve.