Tropical Kummer quartic surfaces

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Authors: Shu Kawaguchi, Kazuhiko Yamaki
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Abstract

We introduce tropical Kummer quartic surfaces in tropical projective $3$-space as the images of certain principally polarized tropical abelian surfaces under tropical theta functions of second order. We study some of their properties, showing that they are included in the tropicalizations of Kummer quartic surfaces defined over nonarchimdean valued fields. In the course of this work, we introduce the notion of a rational polyhedral orbifold and we provide faithful embeddings of tropical Kummer surfaces as such. Further, we show faithful tropicalizations of the canonical skeletons of certain Kummer surfaces over nonarchimdean valued fields. Under a suitable assumption on the base field, the canonical skeletons coincide with the Kontsevich--Soibelman skeletons.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Polynomial and algebraic computation Geometry and complex manifolds

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
13 January 2026
Document type
Preprint