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Remark 3.13 . [0393]

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Remark 3.13.

When dim(X)≥3\dim(X)\geq 3, there are varieties with line bundles LL such that vol⁡(L)\vol(L) is irrational (see [ELMN05, Example 2.2] or [Laz04, Example 2.3.8]). Hence with our definition and normalization of non-archimedean volumes, we get for a model metric ∥⁣∥\|\ \| that vol(L,∥∥,eλ∥∥)=vol(L)λ\vol(L,\|\ \|,e^{\lambda}\|\ \|)=\vol(L)\lambda which produces irrational non-archimedean volumes. The following natural questions remain open:

  1. (i)

    What happens in dimension two? Are non-archimedean volumes rational? Note that by Zariski decomposition, vol⁡(L)\vol(L) is rational then (see for instance [Laz04, Cor. 2.3.22]).

  2. (ii)

    If we normalize our non-archimedean volumes by vol⁡(L)\vol(L), can we find an example of some model metrics ∥⁣∥\|\ \| and ∥∥′\|\ \|^{\prime} with irrational vol(L,∥∥,∥∥′)\vol(L,\|\ \|,\|\ \|^{\prime})? The idea is to avoid the trivial example above.

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