By Vojta’s version of Nagata’s compactification theorem ([Voj, Theorem 5.7]) we may assume that is proper. We show by reverse induction over that the claim holds when for some choice of pairwise different the sequences are constant with respect to . The case is clear. So let and assume that the claim holds for . For we can write for a sequence of piecewise -linear metrics on converging uniformly to a continuous metric on . Denote by the line bundle endowed with the metric . We show that
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is a Cauchy sequence with respect to the weak topology on the space of Borel-measures on . Thus we have to show that for all continuous functions on with compact support in :
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Let be a compact strictly -analytic domain with and . By [GM19, Proposition 2.7] we may extend the metrics from to and hence assume that they are defined on the whole space. Hence by Chow’s lemma and the projection formula we may assume that is projective. Then by [Gub03, Proposition 10.5] any formal model of is dominated by a projective model. Any formal line bundle on this model becomes semipositive after tensoring with for big enough by using Serre’s theorem ([Har77, Theorem II.5.17]) on the special fibre. As a consequence one can write any formal metric on any line bundle on as a quotient of two semipositive formal metrics (on possibly different line bundles).
We will see below, that is bounded with respect to for every compact subset . Hence, as the set of piecewise -linear metrics is dense in the space of continuous metrics on with respect to uniform convergence (Proposition 3.13), we may assume that for a formal metric on . Then we can write for two semipositive formal metrics on some line bundles respectively on . In fact but we will use the notation and to distinguish between the two metrics. Write for the line bundle endowed with the metric and to shorten notation which is a purely formal notation. Furthermore without loss of generality assume . We have
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Since the support of is contained in and by Lemma 4.8 these last integrals depend only on the restrictions of the metrics to . Hence we may instead consider them as integrals over which allows us to use Lemma 4.6 as has no boundary ([Ber90, Theorem 3.4.1]). In combination with an index shift, the last term amounts to
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As any point in has a strictly -analytic neighbourhood on which vanishes, the support of is contained in by Lemma 4.8. So the last display equals
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Here the last term converges to zero as tends to zero by uniform convergence of and compactness of and are positive measures on which converge by the induction hypothesis weakly to a positive Radon measure which implies that their mass of is bounded with respect to . To go into more detail, let be a continuous non-negative function on with compact support such that for all . The existence of such a function follows for example from a partition of unity argument ([Flo03, 1.5.1]) applied to the open cover of the closure of (note that is compact as is proper over ). Then
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where the last term converges for and is hence bounded with respect to .
We now define a positive linear functional on the space of continuous functions with compact support in by
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By the Riesz Representation Theorem ([Rud87, Theorem 2.14]) this corresponds to a positive Radon measure on and we have weakly for .
It remains to show that is bounded with respect to for every compact subset . So let be compact and a continuous non-negative function on with compact support such that for all . As above the existence of such a function follows from a partition of unity argument ([Flo03, 1.5.1]) applied to the open cover of the closure of . Again we may assume that is a model function, i.e. of the from for a piecewise -linear metric on (we can even assume that is a formal metric) and we use the same notation as above. To be more precise, let such that for all . First extend to by zero and then define a new function by . By Proposition 3.13 we may approximate by a model function such that for all . Then by [GM19, Proposition 2.12 (d)], is a model function on with compact support in which is greater than one at . We have
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Again using Lemma 4.6 and the same argumentation as above for the second summand this amounts to
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By the induction hypothesis all measures appearing in this last term converge for . Hence the measure of is bounded with respect to . Furthermore as has compact support in and is bounded with respect to by uniform convergence of and compactness of . We conclude that the last term is bounded with respect to . This proves the induction step. The claim is then the case .
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