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Next we study some properties of the algebraic metrics that arise
from toric models. This kind of metrics will be called toric
algebraic metrics.
Thus, we assume that is a complete field
with respect to an absolute value associated to a nontrivial discrete
valuation. We keep the usual
notations. We fix a complete fan in .
We begin by studying the relationship between the maps and .
Lemma 5.39.
Let be a complete SCR polyhedral complex of such that
. Let be the model of
determined by . Let and
. Then
if and only if .
Proof.
By the definition of the semigroup ,
the condition holds if and only in for all . This is equivalent to for all . In turn, this is equivalent to ,
for all
. Hence, if and
only if for all ,
which is exactly the condition (see (2.12)).
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Corollary 5.40.
With the same hypothesis as Lemma 5.39, if and only if .
Proof.
This follows from Lemma 5.39 and the fact that the special
fibre is
and .
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Let be a virtual support function on , and
the corresponding toric line bundle and section.
Let be a complete SCR polyhedral
complex in such that and let be a
rational piecewise affine function on with . Let be an integer such that is an H-lattice
function. By Theorem 4.81, the pair determines
a toric model of . We will write
. Definition 2.17 gives us an
algebraic metric on . In its turn, the metric
defines a function .
The following proposition closes
the circle.
Proposition 5.41.
The equality holds. Hence extends to a
continuous function on and the metric associated to by Proposition 5.16 agrees with
.
Proof.
The tensor product
defines a rational section of .
Let and choose , such that .
Let and with
.
Then . But in the section is regular and non-vanishing. Therefore, by
Definition 2.17,
Thus
Therefore agrees with the function associated to the metric
. Hence extends to a
continuous function on and the metric agrees with
.
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Example 5.42.
In the non-Archimedean case, the canonical
metric of Proposition-Definition
5.20 is the toric algebraic metric induced by the canonical
model of Definition 4.76.
Proposition 5.41 imposes a necessary condition for a rational
piecewise affine function to determine a model of
.
Corollary 5.43.
Let be a virtual support function on
and let be a rational piecewise affine function on
, with , such that there exists a
complete SCR polyhedral complex with and
piecewise affine on . Then can be
extended to a continuous function on .
Proof.
If there exists such a SCR polyhedral complex , then
and determine a model of and hence
a toric algebraic metric . By Proposition 5.41, and, by the classification of toric metrics in
Proposition 5.16, the function
extends to a continuous function on
.
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Example 5.44.
Let and consider the fan generated by
, and . Then . The
virtual support function corresponds to the trivial line
bundle .
Consider the function
Then , but does not extend to a
continuous function on and therefore it does not
determine a model of
. By contrast, let be the
fan obtained subdividing by adding the edge corresponding
to . Then is isomorphic to a blow-up of
at one point. The function extends to a continuous
function on and it corresponds to a toric model of
.
Question 5.45.
Is the condition in Corollary 5.43 also
sufficient? In other words,
let , and be as before and let be a
rational piecewise affine function on such that can be extended to a continuous function on . Does it
exists a complete SCR polyhedral complex with and is piecewise affine on ?
Remark 5.46.
By the proof of Theorem 4.97 and Corollary 5.43,
when is concave, the conditions
(1)
is bounded;
(2)
can be extended to a continuous function on ;
(3)
there exist a complete SCR polyhedral complex with and piecewise affine on ;
are equivalent. In particular, the answer to the above question is
positive when is concave.
By Theorem 4.97, a rational
piecewise affine concave function with
determines an equivalence class of semipositive
toric models of . As before,
every toric model in this class
defines an algebraic metric on . Since, by
Proposition 2.18, equivalent models give rise to the same
metric, this metric only depends on . Then Proposition
5.41 has the following
direct consequence.
Corollary 5.47.
Let be a complete fan and
let be a support function on . Let be a
rational piecewise
affine concave function on with and let
be the
metric defined by
any model of in the equivalence class
determined by . Then
the equality
holds. So the metric agrees with the
metric of Proposition 5.16. Moreover,
the algebraic metric is semipositive.
Proof.
The equation is just
Proposition 5.41 in the concave case.
By the definition of semipositive algebraic metrics and Theorem
4.95 we obtain that concave implies semipositive.
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We have seen that rational piecewise affine functions give rise to
toric algebraic metrics. We now study the converse.
Let be a rational function on . Then we denote
by the function
.
Lemma 5.48.
Let be a rational function on . Then the function
is an H-lattice function (Definition
3.88). In particular it is a piecewise affine function.
Proof.
The function can be written as
. Then
Thus, it is the difference of two H-lattice concave functions.
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Theorem 5.49.
Let be a complete fan,
a virtual support function on and
the corresponding toric line bundle and section.
Let be a toric algebraic metric on
. Then the function
is rational piecewise affine. If moreover
is concave, the toric algebraic metric
is semipositive and it comes from a toric model.
Proof.
Since the metric is algebraic, there exist a proper -
scheme and a line bundle on
such that the base change of to is isomorphic to . Let be a
trivialization of . Let . The subsets form a finite closed cover of
. On we can write for certain rational function . Therefore,
on , we have . By Lemma 5.48, it follows that there is a
finite closed cover of and the restriction of to each of these closed subsets is rational piecewise
affine. Therefore is rational piecewise affine.
The second statement follows from the first and
Corollary 5.47.
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The next point we study is how to turn a non-toric metric into a
toric one.
Since the image of
consists of fixed points under the action of
(see Proposition-Definition 5.2), we may
think of it as the analogue, in the non-Archimedean case, of a Haar
measure of volume on the compact torus
.
Let be a virtual support function on . Write
and . Let
be a metric on , non-necessarily
toric. Then we define by
(5.50)
Note
that, if is a toric metric, the definition of we
have just given agrees with the one given in §5.2. This is clear because, if the metric is
toric, then .
Proposition 5.51.
The assignment that, to a local section of gives the function
defined as
for ,
is a toric metric on , that we denote
.
Moreover, .
Proof.
As in the proof of Proposition 5.16, we can verify that the
function can be extended to a continuous
function on . Using that is a section of
and the image of consists of points which
are fixed under the action of , we also verify that is the toric
metric associated to by the same proposition.
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The relationship between toric algebraic metrics and
rational piecewise functions of Theorem 5.49
can be extended to the case when the metric is non-toric.
Proposition 5.52.
Let be an algebraic metric. Then the function is rational piecewise affine.
Proof.
Just observe that in the proof of Theorem
5.49 one does not use the
fact that the metric is toric.
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We now study the effect of taking a field extension. Let
be a finite extension of fields that are complete
with respect to an absolute value associated to a nontrivial discrete
valuation. We assume
that the absolute value of is an extension of the absolute value
of . Let be the valuation ring of ,
the maximal ideal, a generator of the
maximal ideal, . Let
be the ramification degree
of the extension. Hence .
Proposition 5.53.
Let be a complete fan in and let be a
complete SCR
polyhedral complex in with .
(1)
Let and denote the toric
varieties defined by over and respectively. Then
Moreover there is a commutative diagram
where the horizontal map is induced by the restriction of
seminorms.
(2)
Let be the polyhedral complex in
obtained from by applying a homothety of ratio . Then
where denotes the normalization of a scheme.
(3)
Let be a rational piecewise linear
function on and denote
. Let be the line
bundle on determined by and let be the
metric on determined by . Let be the line
bundle obtained by base change and the
metric obtained by inverse image. Then
(4)
There is a commutative diagram
Proof.
The statement (1) can be checked locally. Let be
a cone of . Then
This proves the first assertion. The commutativity of the diagram
follows from the fact that the map is given by the restriction of seminorms.
The statement (2) can also be checked locally. Let
be a polyhedron of . Let . Then it is clear that
Since the right-hand side ring is integrally closed, the integral
closure of the left side ring is contained in the right side
ring. Therefore we need to prove that is integral over the left side ring. Let . Thus . Then the
monomial satisfies
Hence is integral over Since these monomials generate
, we obtain
the result.
To prove (3), let and let
be the corresponding point. Then
. Therefore, if
we write and , we have
Finally, statement (4) follows directly from the
definition of because the horizontal arrow is
given by the restriction of seminorms.
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