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4. The limit hybrid model
Let be a proper submersion, with a connected complex manifold. Assume that is meromorphic over in the sense that it admits a model , that is, is a normal complex space, is a flat proper map, and we are given an isomorphism over . We say that is an snc model (of ) if is smooth and the Cartier divisor has simple normal crossing support. Such models always exist by Hironakaβs theorem.
To any snc model we can associate as inΒ Β§2 a hybrid space , that of course depends on . In this section we define a canonical hybrid space , obtained as the inverse limit of the , that does not have this defect. We then prove TheoremΒ B from the introduction.
In the projective case, we show that the both the central fiber and the closed subset can be viewed as analytifications in the sense of Berkovich.
4.1. Snc models and simple blowups
Given any two models , of , there is a canonical bimeromorphic map , and we say that dominates if this map is a morphism. Any two models , is dominated by a third, for instance the normalization of the graph of . By Hironakaβs theorem, any model is dominated by an snc model. Thus the set of models forms a directed set, in which snc models are cofinal.
Suppose is an snc model and that is another model that dominates via . As inΒ [KS06, DefinitionΒ 22] we say that is a simple blowup if it is a blowup along a smooth, connected complex subspace of meeting transversely (or not at all) every irreducible component of that does not contain it. In this case, is also an snc model.
Lemma 4.1.
Suppose and are snc models and that dominates via . Then there exists a third snc model dominating , such that the induced map is a composition of simple blowups.
We are grateful to Bernard Teissier for help with the following argument.
Proof.
By Hironakaβs version of the Chow theorem (in turn a consequence of the flattening theorem), seeΒ [Hir75, CorollaryΒ 2], there exists a complex manifold and a projective bimeromorphic morphism such that dominates . Since is an isomorphism above , the construction inΒ [Hir75] further guarantees that is an isomorphism above . Indeed, the proof proceeds by blowing up well-chosen smooth centers contained in the non-flat locus of , see DΓ©finitionΒ 4.4.3Β (2) in loc.βcit.
We may therefore assume that itself is projective, and more precisely the blowup of an ideal cosupported on . By the principalization theorem for ideals, there exists a projective bimeromorphic morphism that is a composition of simple blowups, such that the pullback of to is a principal ideal, seeΒ [Kol07, TheoremΒ 3.45] orΒ [WΕo09, TheoremΒ 2.0.3]. In particular, dominates . β
4.2. Induced maps between dual complexes
Suppose and are snc models with dominating via . There is then an integral affine map
defined as follows. Consider any simplex of and let be the corresponding stratum. There exists a unique minimal stratum of such that . Let be the corresponding simplex. Let , (resp. , ) be the irreducible components of cutting out (resp. ). Then
for , where .
We can realize the simplex (resp. ) as the subset (resp. ), where (resp. ) is the multiplicity of in (resp. of in ). The restriction of to is then given by
| (4.1) |
for . It is clear that defines a continuous, integral affine map from to . Further, if , and are snc models with dominating , and dominating , then .
In general, it may happen that is a strict subvariety of , and the linear map defining could fail to be injective or surjective.
Definition 4.2.
With notation as above, we say that is active for if the restriction is a bimeromorphic morphism and the -linear map defining is an isomorphism. In this case, and have the same dimension, and maps homeomorphically onto a -subsimplex of of the same dimension.
Denote by the union of all simplices in that are active for . Our goal in this subsection is to prove the following result.
Proposition 4.3.
Let and be snc models, with dominating . Then maps homeomorphically onto .
Corollary 4.4.
The images under of the active simplices in form a simplicial -subdivision of . As a consequence, there exists a unique, -PA map such that and .
When , and are projective, one can prove PropositionΒ 4.3 using the algebraic tool of valuations. Here we follow an ad hoc approach, based on LemmaΒ 4.1.
Lemma 4.5.
Suppose , and are snc models, with dominating and dominating . Let be a simplex of , and let be the smallest simplex of containing . Then is active for iff is active for and is active for . As a consequence, .
Proof.
To ease notation, set and . Let be the smallest simplex of containing . Write , and for the strata of , and corresponding to , and , respectively. The restrictions and are given by -linear maps, and we have induced morphisms and .
First suppose that is active for and is active for . Then and are given by -linear isomorphisms; hence so is the composition . Similarly, the maps and are bimeromorphic morphisms; hence so is the composition . It follows that is active for .
Conversely, suppose is active for . Since the map is a bimeromorphic morphism, the map (resp. ) must be injective (resp. surjective). In particular, and . Similarly, since the -linear map defining is an isomorphism, the -linear map defining (resp. ) must be injective (resp. surjective). In particular, and . Now
so we infer that and . This further implies that the maps and are bimeromorphic morphisms, and that the -linear maps defining and are isomorphisms. Hence and are active for and , respectively. β
Lemma 4.6.
Suppose , and are snc models, with dominating and dominating .
- (a)
If is surjective, then so is .
- (b)
If is injective and is surjective, then is injective.
- (c)
If and are both surjective, then so is .
- (d)
If and are both injective, then so is .
Proof.
This is formal consequence of the relations and . For example, let us proveΒ (a). Pick any point . The assumption implies that we can find with . Then and . ThusΒ (a) holds. The proofs ofΒ (b)β(d) are similar and left to the reader. β
Lemma 4.7.
The assertions of PropositionΒ 4.3 hold when is a simple blowup.
Proof.
This is well known (seeΒ e.g. Β [KS06, p.381]) but we supply a proof for the convenience of the reader. To simplify notation, we set , , and .
Let be the center of the blowup , and the smallest stratum of containing . Let , be the irreducible components of , the subset such that is an component of , and the simplex defined by . Let , be the strict transform of to . Finally, let be the exceptional divisor of . It corresponds to a vertex of .
First assume . In this case, is obtained from by βraising a tent over the simplex β. Let us be more precise. Consider a simplex of , corresponding to a stratum of . By the definition of a simple blowup, meets every irreducible component of transversely (if at all). It follows that cannot be contained in , so is a biholomorphism above a general point of . Thus the strict transform of defines a stratum of as well as a simplex of , whose vertices correspond to the strict transforms of the vertices of . In this case, maps onto , and is a bimeromorphic morphism, so is active for .
This proves that is surjective. To prove injectivity, consider a stratum of , with corresponding simplex of . If is not contained in , then is a biholomorphism at the general point of , is a stratum of of the same dimension as , and is the strict transform of . Thus we are in the situation above. On the other hand, if is contained in , then there exist irreducible components , of , having strict transforms , , such that has and , as vertices. Since is not a stratum of , the smallest stratum containing is cut out by , . It follows that maps the simplex onto the lower-dimensional simplex , so is not active for . Hence is injective.
Now assume is stratum of , defining a simplex with vertices , . In this case, is obtained from by a barycentric subdivision of the simplex . Again, let us be more precise. The same argument as above shows that if is a stratum of that is not contained in , and is the strict transform, then the simplex is active for and . Further, is the unique simplex in that is active for and whose image under meets the interior of .
It remains to consider strata of contained in . This becomes a toroidal calculation. Let be such a stratum, cut out by , , where . Then consists of strata , , each cut out by and , . The restriction is a bimeromorphic morphism, and the the corresponding simplex is active for and maps homeomorphically onto a simplex contained in . Further, these simplices have disjoint interiors and cover . Finally, if is a stratum of contained in , then is a stratum contained in , hence is one of the strata above. This completes the proof. β
Proof of PropositionΒ 4.3.
Since is continuous, is compact, and is Hausdorff, it suffices to prove that is bijective.
Using LemmaΒ 4.6Β (c)β(d) and LemmaΒ 4.7, one proves by induction on the number of blowups that is bijective when is a composition of simple blowups.
Now consider the general case. Using LemmaΒ 4.1 we find an snc model dominating both and and such that the morphism is a composition of simple blowups. Thus is bijective. By LemmaΒ 4.6Β (a), it follows that is surjective. Since and were arbitrary snc models with dominating , it follows that is also surjective. It now follows from LemmaΒ 4.6Β (b) that is injective, which completes the proof. β
4.3. Induced maps between hybrid spaces
To any snc model of we associated inΒ Β§2 a hybrid space . Let us briefly recall the topology on in the present context. Extend to a map
by declaring on . For , define . The construction inΒ Β§2 yields, for , a tropicalization map
uniquely defined up to an additive error term of size . The topology on is the coarsest one such that is continuous, is continuous, and the inclusion is an open embedding.
Now suppose and are snc models, with dominating via . Define the map to be the identity on and equal to the map on defined inΒ Β§4.2.
Proposition 4.8.
The map is continuous and surjective. Further, we have
| (4.2) |
on for .
Proof.
Surjectivity follows from PropositionΒ 4.3, and continuity fromΒ (4.2) after unwinding the definitions. It remains to establishΒ (4.2). Consider any point and set . We can find adapted coordinate charts at on and at on such that and such that the following holds: in , in and . Since the map is given byΒ (4.1), the result now follows from PropositionΒ 2.1. β
4.4. The limit hybrid space
PropositionΒ 4.8 allows us to introduce
Definition 4.9.
The hybrid space associated to is the topological space
where runs over all snc models of .
Here is equipped with the inverse limit topology. The maps define a continuous and proper map
We can identify with the open subset . Similarly, the compact subset can be identified with . For every snc model we have, by the definition of the inverse limit, a continuous proper map . We also have an embedding of onto a closed subset of . It satisfies on .
Remark 4.10.
It is not clear how to define a map , since each tropicalization map is only defined on , where depends on . SeeΒ Β§4.6 for a substitute in the projective case.
4.5. Convergence of measures
For any locally compact Hausdorff space , let denote the space of signed Radon measures on . By definition we have , and this induces a homeomorphism
TheoremΒ 3.4 now implies the following result, which is equivalent to CorollaryΒ B in the introduction.
Corollary 4.11.
Let be a proper submersion that is meromorphic at , and let be a continuous metric on with analytic singularities. Then there exists a positive measure on such that if , then in the sense of weak convergence of measures on . Further, there exists a snc model and a -line bundle on extending such that extends to a smooth metric on , and
where ranges over the -dimensional faces of . Here denotes normalized Lebesgue measure on and , where and , are the divisors defining .
4.6. The projective case
Now consider the case when is projective.55 5 In the projective case, the existence of the spaces and was observed by Kontsevich and Soibelman, seeΒ [KS06, p.383]. As we now explain, we can then view and its central fiber as analytic spaces.
The projectivity assumption means that can be viewed as a smooth subspace , defined by homogeneous polynomials with coefficients that are holomorphic functions on and meromorphic at .
We can view these coefficients as complex formal Laurent series, that is, elements of the field . Given , this field admits a natural non-Archimedean absolute value that is trivial on and normalized by . In other words, we have .
Further, the equations defining now define a smooth projective variety over the field . To this variety we can associate a non-Archimedean space , namely the Berkovich analytification of with respect to non-Archimedean norm on . This is a connected and locally connected compact (Hausdorff) space.
We claim that is homeomorphic on . To see this, we note that, for the same reasons as above, every projective snc model of defines a projective snc model of over the valuation ring of . Further, the dual complex of can be identified with the dual complex of . Now, there exists a canonical retraction map , and we have
| (4.3) |
This was announced inΒ [KS06, TheoremΒ 10, p.383]; seeΒ e.g. Β [BFJ16, CorollaryΒ 3.2] for details. On the other hand, LemmaΒ 4.1 implies that in , we may take the limit over projective snc models. This implies that .
Next we analyze the space itself, usingΒ AppendixΒ A. Fix and consider the Banach ring
where is the maximum of the usual norm and the trivial norm on . The Berkovich spectrum of is homeomorphic to .
Every function that is holomorphic on and meromorphic at defines an element of . Hence we can define the base change using the same homogeneous equations as above. Then is a scheme of finite type over , so its analytification is a compact Hausdorff space with a continuous map onto . (In AppendixΒ A.6, this analytification is denoted by , but here we use for clarity.) We have a homeomorphism
| (4.4) |
and another homeomorphism
| (4.5) |
Proposition 4.12.
The map is homeomorphism.
Proof.
It follows fromΒ (4.4) andΒ (4.5) that is a bijection. Since is compact and is Hausdorff, it only remains to prove that is continuous. It suffices to show that the corresponding map is continuous for a given snc model . For this, in turn, it suffices to show that is continuous near the central fiber.
Consider a coordinate chart adapted to in the sense ofΒ Β§2.2. Let be the irreducible components of intersecting . Let be the set of seminorms satisfying for . Then we have
on . Now the function is continuous on with values in the simplex . This completes the proof, since we can cover a neighborhood of the central fiber in with sets of the type . β