Successive minima and asymptotic slopes in Arakelov Geometry

Autor: François Ballaÿ
Přispěvatelé: Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University [Beijing]
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Compositio Mathematica
Compositio Mathematica, Foundation Compositio Mathematica, 2021, 157 (6), pp.1302-1339. ⟨10.1112/S0010437X21007156⟩
ISSN: 0010-437X
1570-5846
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.06026
Popis: Let $X$ be a normal and geometrically integral projective variety over a global field $K$ and let $\overline{D}$ be an adelic Cartier divisor on $X$. We prove a conjecture of Chen, showing that the essential minimum $\zeta_{\mathrm{ess}}(\overline{D})$ of $\overline{D}$ equals its asymptotic maximal slope under mild positivity assumptions. As an application, we see that $\zeta_{\mathrm{ess}}(\overline{D})$ can be read on the Okounkov body of the underlying divisor $D$ via the Boucksom--Chen concave transform. This gives a new interpretation of Zhang's inequalities on successive minima and a criterion for equality generalizing to arbitrary projective varieties a result of Burgos Gil, Philippon and Sombra concerning toric metrized divisors on toric varieties. When applied to a projective space $X = \mathbb{P}_K^d$, our main result has several applications to the study of successive minima of hermitian vector spaces. We obtain an absolute transference theorem with a linear upper bound, answering a question raised by Gaudron. We also give new comparisons between successive slopes and absolute minima, extending results of Gaudron and R\'emond.
Comment: 34 pages. Minor revisions in the introduction, results unchanged
Databáze: OpenAIRE