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11 Modification of the sheaf
11.1 Pieces of lines and convergence regions
Definition 13
A neighborhood of a point is convex if there exists an open convex which is isomorphic to by means of the exponential map associated with the affine structure on .
For let be convex neighborhoods of such that is relatively compact in . Let . Then there is a natural embedding .
Definition 14
A piece of defined by the pair is an element of the image of the set of connected components into under the above embedding.
In plain words a piece of is an equivalence class of a connected interval of . Two connected intervals are equivalent if they are contained in a larger connected interval of . The sole purpose of the introduction of the notion of a piece is to avoid some pathology. Namely, for any pair as above, any and any , there is only a finite number of pieces of in which have points with time parameter .
Let be a piece of defined by a pair . Then one can define an affine function in the following way. Let be such that belongs to . Since is convex, there is a unique continuation of to . This is an affine function which does not depend on the choice of . We will denote it by .
For any germ of a symplectomorphism at a point we define its convergence region as the maximal convex subset such that the pullback extends to . Since the definition of (and hence its convergence region) is covariant with respect to the affine connection we have the following result:
Proposition 5
Let belongs to a line . Then the convergence region of at contains an open half-plane .
It is clear that one can define convergence regions for symplectomorphisms associated with pieces of lines, and a similar property holds for them.
11.2 Main assumptions, and an apology
Let us suppose that our collection of lines satisfies the following assumptions:
- Assumption A1
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There is a smooth metric and a collection of balls with centers at such that each ball contains exactly two lines outcoming of .
- Assumption A2
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There exists such that for any the distance in between and the boundary of is greater or equal to .
We are going to show that such a collection does exist in Section 11.
Assumptions A1 and A2 are very artificial, they do not hold in physical picture which is the main motivation for the construction. It is quite possible that they can be weakened or even omitted. The main purpose of introducing them here is the possibility to define the sheaf of analytic functions by simple gluing. In complex geometry it is similar to the gluing of closed Riemann surfaces with boundaries by the mean of real-analytic identifications of the boundaries. It is well-known that one can replace real-analytic maps by smooth ones (or even by quasi-symmetric continuous maps). Maybe the rest of this section is unnecessary, and unpleasant technical arguments in Section 11.5 can be avoided.
11.3 Infinite product and its convergence
Denote by the set of all points of all lines. It has measure zero. Let be a point of . We consider two convex neighborhoods of such that is relatively compact in .
For any two points belonging to , and a path joining and in , we would like to define an infinite ordered product of transformations , where factors correspond to the intersection points of with all possible pieces relative to . Factors in the infinite product are ordered according to the time parameter of , the sign corresponds to the mutual position of orientations of and a piece at the intersection point.
In order to give a precise meaning to the infinite product the neighborhood of should be sufficiently small. Then we will have an analytic continuation of symplectomorphisms to , and the convergence of the infinite product. We are also going to prove that the product is independent of the choice of path . In order to achieve these goals it suffices to assume:
- C1
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for any such the set is contained in ;
- C2
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for any there is only a finite number of pieces of lines in such that .
Theorem 7
Assume two above conditions. Then the product defining converges at every point of and in fact gives an element of . Moreover, the product does not depend on the choice of path , and for any satisfies the relation .
Proof. Condition C1 implies that all transformations admit an analytic continuation to . Let us introduce a decreasing filtration by positive real numbers on group by the formula
This is a complete filtration, and condition C2 implies that in any quotient only a finite number of elements are non-trivial. Therefore we can define the product in the quotient group.
In order to prove independence of , we consider the quotient group , and the finite -dimensional CW-complex (graph) consisting of finitely many pieces , such that in the quotient. For each vertex of the graph there is a natural cyclic order on the edges incident to . The product taken in the cyclic order over the set of edges incident to is equal to (this follows from the construction of via factorizations). Since is simply-connected, we conclude that the image of in does not depend on . Using completeness of the filtration we see that does not depend on . Proof of the identity is similar.
Theorem 8
Assumptions A1 and A2 imply that for any there exist neighborhood (and also ) satisfying conditions C1 and C2.
Proof. Assumption A1 implies that the result near any singular point , as there are only two lines near . If we are far from then obviously A2 implies C1.
In order to check C2 we prove the following lemma
Lemma 5
Under Assumptions A1 and A2, for any the set
consists of a finite number of intervals.
Proof: We proceed by induction in βcomplexity of the lineβ. Let be the infimum of where has a collision at time . This number is strictly positive because the number of initial lines is finite, and by A1 there is no collisions at small times. Observe that the value of at the beginning of any composite line is greater or equal to the sum . Therefore the inequality in the lemma implies that the number of collisions is bounded from above by . Also we have an upper bound on integer coefficients in each collision (see Axiom in Section 9.2). Let us observe that the length of each edge of the ansector tree of is also bounded from above by , for some absolute constant . Hence we have only finitely many possibilities for intersections.
For point which is far from we chose as a neighborhood of radius where is constant from Assumption A2. Then for any point of a line we will have the inclusion
This implies that in for the corresponding piece is bounded below by
Since (by the last lemma) there exists only a finite number of pieces intersecting such , we obtain convergence condition C2.
11.4 Construction of the modified sheaf
For any point and a neighborhood satisfying conditions C1 and C2 we define the sheaf as the result of the identification of copies of the sheaf labeled by points , by isomorphisms . It follows from formulas in Section 8 that near singular points one can identify canonically this sheaf with the restriction of the sheaf to a punctured neighborhood of .
Proposition 6
For the modified sheaf one has a canonical nowhere vanishing section of the associated sheaf of -analytic -forms.
The -affine structure on associated with coincides with the initial one .
Proof. Existence of follows from the fact that all modifications associated with lines are symplectomorphisms. In order to finish the proof it suffices to check that the modification associated with a line does not change the -affine structure on . In local coordinates we may assume that and the modification is of the form , where is convergent in an appropriate domain. We need to check that the automorphism acts trivially on the quotient sheaf (see Section 7.2 for the notation). This check reduces to the calculation of
The latter is equal to because belongs to and therefore has no constant term.
Thus, we have a solution of the Lifting Problem under Assumptions A1 and A2.
11.5 Construction of the collection of lines
We would like to show that there exists a smooth metric and a collection of lines satisfying the Assumptions A1 and A2.
Let be an arbitrary smooth metric, flat near singular points. We define germs of lines in such a way that for each in local coordinates these lines are given by and . The metric will coincide with in a sufficiently small neighborhood of the singular set. Hence Assumption A1 will be satisfied.
In order to construct the whole family of lines we introduce a -dimensional manifold consisting of pairs where and is a half-plane in whose boundary contains zero. Here is a larger neighborhood of .
We would like to construct a smooth section of the pull-back to of the tangent bundle satisfying the following conditions:
- 1.
for any one has ;
- 2.
for any the map is an orientation-preserving diffeomorphism
- 3.
for every there exists a smooth extension of the piece of in to a larger piece intersecting such that
for such that ;
Let us associate with the section a nowhere vanishing vector field on in the following way:
- β’
For each the vector is tangent to the horizontal distribution associated with the flat connection (the one which defines the affine structure on ).
- β’
Projection of to coincides with , where .
Clearly these conditions determines uniquely. Now we formulate last condition:
- 4.
there exits such that for almost all (in the sense of Baire category) initial values the integral curve of starting at reaches the pullback of in finite time.
Using the vector field we will construct (under certain genericity assumptions) a set of lines satisfying Assumption A1. Namely, the data consisting of a line and an integer-valued -form (see Section 9) will be an integral line of .
We are going to construct lines by induction by the number of collisions. Lines will be constructed using condition 3. The genericity assumption mentioned after the condition 4 is the assumption that no more than two lines collide and that initial values for newborn lines will be sufficiently generic. Conditions 1 and 4 plus genericity imply that one can parametrize any line by the new βtimeβ such that the Axiom 2 is satisfied. Axiom 6 follows from the condition 2. Other axioms and the Assumption A1 will be satisfied automatically.
Now we would like to discuss Assumption A2.
Proposition 7
Suppose that the metric and field described above are such that for any there exists such that
where is the normal unit vector to directed inside and is the covariant derivative of the metric considered as a symmetric tensor on the cotangent bundle.
Then the Assumption A2 is satisfied.
Proof. In order to satisfy Assumption A2 it suffices to find such that for any and any half-plane with the distance , and another half-plane parallel to such that , one has the following property: if is the half-plane obtained from by a small covariant (with respect to the affine connection ) shift in the direction of , then
Here etc. denotes the induced flat metric on the tangent space . This property guarantees that the condition will propagate along the line. For a new line obtained as a result of collision of and at the times and respectively one has
since contains the intersection point , see Figure 7.

One can easily see that the infinitesimal inequality from above is equivalent to
(the change of the distance consists of two summands: one corresponds to the shift along with the fixed metric, and the other one corresponds to the change of the metric). Taking the limit we arrive to the inequality for the covariant derivative of the metric with .
Now our goal is to construct the field of directions and the metric satisfying the conditions 1β4 and the inequality from the last Propostion. This will conclude the construction of the set of lines satisfying the Assumptions A1 and A2.
Since is a boundary of the convex set, we can locally model it by the graph of function such that , . We may assume that is the upper half-plane. Then we take
We extend this local model of near to in such a way that conditions 1 and 2 are satisfied. It is clear that we can satisfy conditions 3,4 as well by taking a small perturbation of . On Figure 8 there is a picture of the field .

For an arbitrary choice of the metric we have for all . The problem with inequality
arises only as the point approaches . Indeed, in this case the vector can be very close to the tangent vector to .
Lemma 6
With the above choice of assume that the metric satisfies for any the condition
where is the unit tangent vector to and is the normal vector to (all scalar products and lengths are taken with respect to the metric ).
Then there exists such that
for all .
Proof. We need to check that the ratio
is bounded for .
It suffices to prove the Lemma assuming that is the parabolic domain and is the upper half-plane. The vector field is given for by the formulas
The denominator is equal to near .
The numerator is equal to
where and are two -functions.
By assumption of the Lemma we have . Therefore where is a convenient local coordinate near the point . Notice also that .
Now we can estimate first summand of the numerator assuming that and are sufficiently small. As we have seen, it is bounded by
There are three cases which we need to consider.
a) If then .
b) if then .
c) If the .
We see that the numerator is bounded. This concludes the proof of Lemma.
Finally, we have the following result.
Lemma 7
There exists metric satisfying the conditions of Lemma 6.
Proof: First of all, the condition on from Lemma 6 is the condition on a loop of scalar products on 2-dimensional spaces, here . We can write where and is a smooth function. Then we have
The equation of Lemma 6 gives . The RHS of this expression is known as long as we know . Hence we can say that , where is a 1-form depending on the restriction . We see that it suffices to find such that (then and hence does exist).
Let us consider the functional . We can interpret a metric as a point in the Lobachevsky plane . More precisely, let us consider the space of pairs where is a positive quadratic form on such that and is a half-plane in (the meaning of is the inward oriented tangent half-plane to at point ). This space is naturally diffeomorphic to . The latter manifold can be identified in -equivariant way with the manifold consisting of pairs , where and belongs to the absolute. Hence is (locally) a non-parametrized path in (it would be a global path, if the bundle over given by the all metrics on with the determinant was trivial).
Next we observe that the variation , where is a -dimensional surface bounded by the paths defined by and , and is a canonical -invariant -form on . One can show that even by a small variation of the path defined by we can make an arbitrary real number. In particular, we can find such that . This concludes the proof of Lemma 6.
Summarizing, we have constructed a set of lines satisfying the Assumptions A1 and A2. This concludes the proof of Theorem 5. Thus we have obtained a solution of the Lifting Problem, which is a -analytic K3 surface.
11.6 Independence and uniqueness
It is natural to ask how the above construction of the -analytic K3 surface depends on the choice of the set of lines. We know that the βperiodsβ of (they are encoded in the initial -affine structure) do not depend on (see Sections 7.3, 10.4). In the light of Torelli theorem (see Appendix B) it is natural to formulate the following conjecture.
Conjecture 11
The isomorphism class of the pair does not depend on the choice of the set of lines.
More precisely, the change of corresponds to the change of the projection (see Section 7.3).
Remark 4
For and with the standard singular -affine structure we have constructed a -analytic K3 surface depending on parameters in . More precisely, we have a -dimensional -analytic space of conjugacy classes of representations
such that the monodromy around each singular point is conjugate to the pair where is equal to
(compare with Section 3.3).
11.7 Remark on the case of positive and mixed characteristic
Our construction of works even without the assumption where is the residue field of . This can be explained from the point of view of factorization theorem (see Section 10.4). It turns out that symplectomorphisms which appear in the infinite product in the RHS of the factorization theorem are infinite series whose coefficients are integer polynomials in the coefficients of the βparentβ symplectomorphisms.
For example, let and be two power series convergent when . Let us consider two symplectomorphisms: and and decompose into the infinite ordered product . Here
where . Then one can check that for any coprime and any one has
This implies that our construction works when one replaces by arbitrary commutative ring endowed with a complete non-trivial valuation .
11.8 Further generalizations
First of all, one can introduce a small parameter of noncommutativity in the picture, coordinates will not commute but instead satisfy the relation
For such a noncommutative analytic torus one can still define sheaf on by the βsameβ formula as in the commutative case:
where is connected. Also one can construct a non-commutative deformation of the model sheaf near the singular point. All arguments with the groups work as well. In this way we will obtain a kind of quantized K3 surface over a non-archimeden field.
Secondly, we believe that one can generalize our construction to higher dimensions. Instead of lines there will be codimension one walls which should be flat hypersurfaces with respect to -affine structure and carry foliations by parallel lines. Generically on the intersection of two such foliated hypersurfaces one can βseparateβ variables into the product of a purely 2-dimensional situation studied in the present paper, and dummy variables. Presumably everywhere except a countable union of codimension 2 subsets one can use 2-dimensional factorization and define gluing volume preserving maps. One can hope that by a kind of Hartogs principle the sheaf will have a canonical extension to the whole space .