Morphisms of Berkovich curves and the different function

Abstract: Given a generically 'etale morphism

f c o l o n Y o X

of quasi-smooth Berkovich curves, we define a different function

d e l t a_{f} c o l o n Y o [0, 1]

that measures the wildness of the topological ramification locus of

f

. This provides a new invariant for studying

f

, which cannot be obtained by the usual reduction techniques. We prove that

d e l t a_{f}

is a piecewise monomial function satisfying a balancing condition at type 2 points analogous to the classical Riemann-Hurwitz formula, and show that

d e l t a_{f}

can be used to explicitly construct the simultaneous skeletons of

X

and

Y

. As an application, we use our results to completely describe the topological ramification locus of

f

when its degree equals to the residue characteristic

p

.

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