Picard groups for tropical toric schemes

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Abstract: From any monoid scheme X (also known as an mathbbF1-scheme) one can pass to a semiring scheme (a generalization of a tropical scheme) XS by scalar extension to an idempotent semifield S. We prove that for a given irreducible monoid scheme X (satisfying some mild conditions) and an idempotent semifield S, the Picard group Pic(X) of X is stable under scalar extension to S (and in fact to any field K). In other words, we show that the groups Pic(X) and Pic(XS) (and Pic(XK)) are isomorphic. In particular, if XmathbbC is a toric variety, then Pic(X) is the same as the Picard group of the associated tropical scheme. The Picard groups can be computed by considering the correct sheaf cohomology groups. We also define the group CaCl(XS) of Cartier divisors modulo principal Cartier divisors for a cancellative semiring scheme XS and prove that CaCl(XS) is isomorphic to Pic(XS).


Given a variety over a valued field, one can tropicalize it and construct a combinatorial object. Originally, these tropical varieties are polyhedral complexes which inherit topology from \(\mathbb{R}^n\). \textit{J. Giansiracusa} and \textit{N. Giansiracusa} [Duke Math. J. 165, No. 18, 3379--3433 (2016; Zbl 1409.14100)] combined \(\mathbb{F}_1\)-geometry with the notion of bend loci to equip tropical varieties with scheme structure, and therefore, obtained tropical schemes. This paper investigates Picard groups of tropical schemes as a first step towards building scheme-theoretic tropical divisor theory which can lead to finding a scheme-theoretic tropical Riemann-Roch theorem. For monoid \(M\) one can pass from monoid scheme \(X = \text{Spec}\, M\) to scheme \(X_K = \text{Spec}\, K[M]\) by scalar extension to field \(K\). \textit{J. Flores} and \textit{C. Weibel} [J. Algebra 415, 247--263 (2014; Zbl 1314.14003)] show Picard groups \(\text{Pic} (X)\) and \(\text{Pic} (X_K)\) are isomorphic. The current paper proves this isomorphism in tropical setting: for irreducible monoid scheme \(X\) and idempotent semifield \(S\) Picard groups \(\text{Pic} (X)\) and \(\text{Pic} (X_S)\) are both isomorphic to certain sheaf cohomology groups, and hence, are isomorphic. They also construct the group \(\text{CaCl}\, (X_S)\) of Cartier divisors modulo principal Cartier divisors and show that \(\text{CaCl}\, (X_S)\) is isomorphic to \(\text{Pic} (X_S)\).



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