4. Outlook [03EG]
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4. Outlook
4.1. Combinatorics
It would be interesting to know whether the subdivision of given by the can be realized as the boundary of a -dimensional polytope (as the picture suggests). The dual of the face lattice would be given by the lattice of intervals in the face lattice of (or of ).
In fact, if there was a realization of the combinatorial type of with an identification such that the normal cones of and intersect in their relative interiors, then the Minkowski sum would do the trick. For , Koebe’s Theorem [Thu80] guarantees such a realization.
4.2. The Hausdorff convergence
There is a natural family of complex structures on the model torus fibration . Namely, for a given we can take to be the holomorphic 1-forms on , where are the affine coordinates on and are the corresponding coordinates on the torus fibers. Also, given a Riemannian metric on , one can define the Kähler metric on by . If, in addition, satisfy the real Monge-Ampère equation: , then the induced metric on is Ricci-flat.
In the second part of the paper we will show that embeds into “almost” holomorphically. Moreover, we will construct a family of -invariant Kähler forms on in the class , such that the pairs with the induced metrics converge in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to the pair . Here will carry a compact metric space structure which will restrict to a Riemannian metric on .
4.3. Non-Archimedean geometry
The family can be thought of as an affine algebraic hypersurface in defined over a complete algebraically closed field that contains . Then, as the name suggests, the image of under the valuation map will be the non-Archimedean amoeba (cf. [Kap00]).
Interestingly, the potential functions for our Kähler forms will come from smoothing a convex piecewise linear function on . This gives another evidence that there may be a reformulation of mirror symmetry purely in non-Archimedean terms. There is a partial understanding of this approach [Kon00], but the entire program still remains wide open.