Proof of Theorem 6.6.
For short, we set and .
Let be the fan associated to as in Remark
4.43. There is a toric morphism . The
function defines an approachable metric
on
. We denote . Then there is an isometry
. By Corollary 5.25 there is
an isometry .
If the dimension of is less than , then the right-hand
side of equation (6.7) is zero. Moreover,
and the metrized
line bundles and come from a variety of
smaller dimension. Therefore, by Theorem 2.46(2),
the left-hand side
of equation (6.7) is also zero, because is the cycle zero. If has dimension
then is a birational morphism, so, by Theorem
2.46(2),
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Therefore it is enough to prove the theorem for . By construction, the fan is
regular; hence the variety is
projective and is ample. Thus we are reduced to prove the
theorem in the case when is
regular and is ample.
Now the proof is done by
induction on , the dimension of .
If then , , and
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By equation (5.15), and . The Legendre-Fenchel dual of satisfies
. By equation (2.40), and . Therefore
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Let and let be rational sections of
such that intersect
properly.
By the construction of local heights (Definition 2.39),
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and a similar formula holds for the canonical metric.
For each facet of let be as in Notation
3.103. Since is ample, Proposition 4.46 implies
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where the sum is over the facets of .
Observe that the local height of with respect to the
metrized line bundle coincides with the local height
associated to the restriction of to this subvariety. Moreover
by Corollary 5.23,
the restriction of the canonical metric of to this subvariety agrees
with the canonical metric of .
Hence, by
substracting from equation (6.11) the analogous formula for the
canonical metric, we obtain
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Moreover, Proposition 2.37 implies that
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By equation
(5.15), .
Moreover
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and by Theorem 5.81, . Hence
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By Example 3.96, . Therefore, in the case of the canonical
metric, equation (6.13) reads as
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Thus, substracting from equation (6.10) the analogous formula for the
canonical metric and using equations (6.12), (6.13)
and (6.14), we obtain
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By the inductive hypothesis and equation (5.77)
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Hence, by Corollary 3.104,
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proving the theorem
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