Geometry in the tropical limit

DOI10.1007/S00591-011-0097-7MaRDI QIDQ453440zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ilia Itenberg, Grigory Mikhalkin

Publication date 27 September 2012

Published in Mathematische Semesterberichte (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3111

zbMATH Keywords

amoebas of plane curvesGromov-Witten and Welschinger invariantsquantum mechanicsthermodynamicstropical curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Abstract: Complex algebraic varieties become easy piecewise-linear objects after passing to the so-called tropical limit. Geometry of these limiting objects is known as tropical geometry. In this short survey we take a look at motivation and intuition behind this limit and consider a few simple examples of correspondence principle between classical and tropical geometries.

Review text

This is a short survey of ideas, motivation and results of tropical geometry. The main objects of tropical geometry, tropical varieties, are piece-wise linear objects which can be viewed as limits of families of complex varieties. In coordinates, one passes from \(z(t)\) to \(\lim_{t\to\infty}\log_t|z(t)|\). One of the consequences is the loss of the argument (the phase) of \(z(t)\). The authors demonstrate a similar effect in the use of quasiclassical approximations of quantum systems: slowly changing high frequency of oscillations allows one to ignore the phase. Another consequence of the above (tropical) limit procedure is the conversion of the usual addition and multiplication into the maximum and addition, respectively (tropical addition and multiplication). This effect is illustrated via zero-temperature limit in thermodynamics. Thermodynamical motivations and interpretations recently entered geometric considerations, for example, amoebas of plane curves appear as limit shapes in dimer model, the statistical model enhances with Gibbs mearures (Kenyon, Okounkov, Sheffield). The authors conclude with a short description of tropical curves and of the correspondence between tropical and complex algebraic curves, and finally explain how this correspondence applies to computation of the Gromov-Witten and Welschinger invariants of the plane.

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