Faithful tropicalization of Mumford curves of genus two

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Abstract

In the present paper, we investigate the question if the skeleton of a Mumford curve of genus two can be tropicalized faithfully in dimension three, i.e. if there exists an embedding of the curve in projective three space such that the tropicalization maps the skeleton of the curve isometrically to its image. Baker, Payne and Rabinoff showed that the skeleton of every analytic curve can be tropicalized faithfully. However the dimension of the ambient space in their proof can be quite large. We will define a map from the skeleton to the tropicalization of the Jacobian, which is an isometry on the cycles. It allows us to find principal divisors and simultaneously to determine the retractions of their support on the skeleton which is necessary to calculate their tropicalization. It turns out that a Mumford curve of genus two whose cycles of its skeleton are either disjoint or share an edge of length at most half of the length of the cycles, can be tropicalized faithfully in dimension three.

Keywords

Mumford curves Tropical geometry Berkovich spaces Tropicalization 

Mathematics Subject Classification

14T05 14H30 14H45 
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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grant WE 4279). I would like to thank Annette Werner for numerous suggestions and corrections.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Institut für MathematikGoethe Universität FrankfurtFrankfurt am MainGermany

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