Crucial curvatures and minimal resultant loci for non-archimedean polynomials

Abstract: Let

K

be an algebraically closed and complete non-archimedean field, and

m a t h c a l O_{K}

the ring of

K

-integers. For a polynomial

P i n K [z]

of degree

d > 1

, the

n

-th Trucco's dynamical tree

G a m m a_{n} = G a m m a_{n} (P)

,

n g e 0

, is spanned by the preimage

P^{- n} (x i_{B})

of

x i_{B}

under the

n

-th iteration

P^{n}

of

P

and

i n f t y

in the Berkovich projective line

m a t h s f P_{K}^{1}

, where the base point

x i_{B} i n m a t h s f P_{K}^{1}

is the boundary point of the minimal Berkovich closed disk in the Berkovich affine line containing the filled-in Julia set of

P

. Applying Berkovich hyperbolic geometric development of Rumely's new equivariants, we compute a weight function on

G a m m a_{n} (P)

associated to the

G a m m a_{n} (P)

-crucial curvature

u_{P^{j}, G a m m a_{n} (P)}

induced by

P^{j}

for

j g e 1

and

n g e 0

. Then applying the depth formulas for the coefficient reductions of

o p e r a t o r n a m e P G L (2, K)

-conjugations of

P^{j}

, we obtain the Hausdorff convergence as

n o i n f t y

of the barycenters of

u_{P^{j}, G a m m a_{n} (P)}

towards Rumely's minimal resultant locus

o p e r a t o r n a m e {M i n R e s L o c}_{P^{j}}

for

P^{j}

,

j g e d - 1

, and show that it is a singleton independent of

j g e d - 1

. This stationarity of

o p e r a t o r n a m e {M i n R e s L o c}_{P^{j}}

in the Berkovich upper half space is reformulated as a stationarity of the potential semistable reduction loci for

P^{j}

,

j g e d - 1

, in the space

. We also study the asymptotic as

n o i n f t y

of the measures

u_{P^{j}, G a m m a_{n} (P)}

themselves for each

j g e 1

.

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