tbranzov

In the last few decades, Berkovich’s theory of k -analytic space has extended classic rigid geometry. Since k -analytic space has good topological properties, and the Berkovich analytification of algebraic varieties could be also dealt with via the geometry of the model and it has a strong connection with tropical geometry, this allows us to use the combinatorial techniques to study algebraic varieties. Our lectures will mainly discuss the contents of Berkovich space and its application in other aspects of mathematics, we plan to go over the basic properties of Berkovich space in both algebraic and topological ways for the first lecture. 

In the last few decades, Berkovich’s theory of k -analytic space has extended classic rigid geometry. Since k -analytic space has good topological properties, and the Berkovich analytification of algebraic varieties could be also dealt with via the geometry of the model and it has a strong connection with tropical geometry, this allows us to use the combinatorial techniques to study algebraic varieties. Our lectures will mainly discuss the contents of Berkovich space and its application in other aspects of mathematics, we plan to go over the basic properties of Berkovich space in both algebraic and topological ways for the first lecture. 

I will start by briefly recalling the two approaches to tropicalizing subvarieties of algebraic tori. We then transition to the compactified version, substituting the torus with a toric variety, and formalizing the concept of embedded tropical varieties together with a notion of their smoothness. Notably, not all such varieties can be realized as tropicalizations of classical varieties, and different embeddings of classical varieties yield combinatorially distinct tropicalizations, which we equate through so-called modifications. We will conclude by addressing the question of recovering information about classical varieties from their tropicalizations, exemplified by the phase tropical limit having the same topology as corresponding complex hypersurfaces provided that the usual tropicalization is smooth.

Tropical geometry is perhaps the most elementary of the geometries we are interested in. A tropicalization is often described as a combinatorial shadow of an algebraic variety. I will explain two approaches to this tropicalization procedure, in the context of complex and non-Archimedean varieties, and how they are related. The basics of tropical geometry and (co)amoebas will be covered as well.