Faithful tropicalizations of elliptic curves using minimal models and inflection points

DOI10.1007/S40598-019-00121-YzbMATH Open1436.14107arXiv1809.09892OpenAlexW3098230915MaRDI QIDQ2175395FDOQ2175395

Authors: Paul Alexander Helminck 

Publication date: 29 April 2020

Published in: Arnold Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give an elementary proof of the fact that any elliptic curve $E$ over an algebraically closed non-archimedean field $K$ with residue characteristic $eq2,3$ and with $v(j(E))<0$ admits a tropicalization that contains a cycle of length $-v(j(E))$. We first define an adapted form of minimal models over non-discrete valuation rings and we recover several well-known theorems from the discrete case. Using these, we create an explicit family of marked elliptic curves $(E,P)$, where $E$ has multiplicative reduction and $P$ is an inflection point that reduces to the singular point on the reduction of $E$. We then follow the strategy as in cite[Theorem 6.2]{BPR11} and construct an embedding such that its tropicalization contains a cycle of length $-v(j(E))$. We call this a numerically faithful tropicalization. A key difference between this approach and the approach in cite{BPR11} is that we do not require any of the analytic theory on Berkovich spaces such as the {it{Poincar'{e}-Lelong formula}} or cite[Theorem 5.25]{BPR11} to establish the numerical faithfulness of this tropicalization.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09892

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic curvestropical geometryminimal modelsfaithful tropicalizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Elliptic curves over local fields (11G07) Non-Archimedean valued fields (12J25) Arithmetic aspects of tropical varieties (14T25)

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• Invariants for trees of non-Archimedean polynomials and skeleta of superelliptic curves
• On a two-parameter family of tropical Edwards curves

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