Lifting harmonic morphisms. I: Metrized complexes and Berkovich skeleta

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DOI10.1186/S40687-014-0019-0zbMATH Open1327.14117arXiv1303.4812OpenAlexW1910462596WikidataQ59403210 ScholiaQ59403210MaRDI QIDQ2347892FDOQ2347892

Erwan Brugallé, Joseph Rabinoff, Matthew Baker, Omid Amini

Publication date: 10 June 2015

Published in: Research in the Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let K be an algebraically closed, complete non-Archimedean field. The purpose of this paper is to carefully study the extent to which finite morphisms of algebraic K-curves are controlled by certain combinatorial objects, called skeleta. A skeleton is a metric graph embedded in the Berkovich analytification of X. A skeleton has the natural structure of a metrized complex of curves. We prove that a finite morphism of K-curves gives rise to a finite harmonic morphism of a suitable choice of skeleta. We use this to give analytic proofs of stronger "skeletonized" versions of some foundational results ofLiu-Lorenzini, Coleman, and Liu on simultaneous semistable reduction of curves. We then consider the inverse problem of lifting finite harmonic morphisms of metrized complexes to morphisms of curves over K. We prove that every tamely ramified finite harmonic morphism of Lambda-metrized complexes of k-curves lifts to a finite morphism of K-curves. If in addition the ramification points are marked, we obtain a complete classification of all such lifts along with their automorphisms. This generalizes and provides new analytic proofs of earlier results of Sa"idi and Wewers. As an application, we discuss the relationship between harmonic morphisms of metric graphs and induced maps between component groups of N'eron models, providing a negative answer to a question of Ribet motivated by number theory. This article is the first in a series of two. The second article contains several applications of our lifting results to questions about lifting morphisms of tropical curves.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4812





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