Abstract
We introduce a scheme-theoretic enrichment of the principal objects of tropical geometry. Using a category of semiring schemes, we construct tropical hypersurfaces as schemes over idempotent semirings such as by realizing them as solution sets to explicit systems of tropical equations that are uniquely determined by idempotent module theory. We then define a tropicalization functor that sends closed subschemes of a toric variety over a ring with non-Archimedean valuation to closed subschemes of the corresponding tropical toric variety. Upon passing to the set of -points this reduces to Kajiwara–Payne’s extended tropicalization, and in the case of a projective hypersurface we show that the scheme structure determines the multiplicities attached to the top-dimensional cells. By varying the valuation, these tropicalizations form algebraic families of -schemes parameterized by a moduli space of valuations on that we construct. For projective subschemes, the Hilbert polynomial is preserved by tropicalization, regardless of the valuation. We conclude with some examples and a discussion of tropical bases in the scheme-theoretic setting.
Citation
Jeffrey Giansiracusa. Noah Giansiracusa. "Equations of tropical varieties." Duke Math. J. 165 (18) 3379 - 3433, 1 December 2016. https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-3645544
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