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Existence of the Sectional Capacity

Robert Rumely University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Chi Fong Lau DKB Financial Products, Ltd., Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Robert Varley University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4704-0281-5
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Volume: 1452000; 130 pp
MSC: Primary 14; 11; Secondary 31;

Let $K$ be a global field, and let $X/K$ be an equidimensional, geometrically reduced projective variety. For an ample line bundle $\overline{\mathcal L}$ on $X$ with norms $\|\ \|_v$ on the spaces of sections $K_v \otimes_K \Gamma(X,\mathcal{L}^{\otimes n})$, we prove the existence of the sectional capacity $S_\gamma(\overline{\mathcal L})$, giving content to a theory proposed by Chinburg. In the language of Arakelov Theory, the quantity $-\log(S_\gamma(\overline{\mathcal L}))$ generalizes the top arithmetic self-intersection number of a metrized line bundle, and the existence of the sectional capacity is equivalent to an arithmetic Hilbert-Samuel Theorem for line bundles with singular metrics.

In the case where the norms are induced by metrics on the fibres of ${\mathcal L}$, we establish the functoriality of the sectional capacity under base change, pullbacks by finite surjective morphisms, and products. We study the continuity of $S_\gamma(\overline{\mathcal L})$ under variation of the metric and line bundle, and we apply this to show that the notion of $v$-adic sets in $X(\mathbb C_v)$ of capacity $0$ is well-defined. Finally, we show that sectional capacities for arbitrary norms can be well-approximated using objects of finite type.

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in algebraic geometry.

• Table of Contents

• Chapters
• Introduction
• 1. The standard hypotheses
• 2. The definition of the sectional capacity
• 3. Reductions
• 4. Existence of the monic basis for very ample line bundles
• 5. Zaharjuta’s construction
• 6. Local capacities
• 7. Existence of the global sectional capacity
• 8. A positivity criterion
• 9. Base change
• 10. Pullbacks
• 11. Products
• 12. Continuity, Part I
• 13. Continuity, Part II
• 14. Local capacities of sets
• 15. Approximation theorems
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Volume: 1452000; 130 pp
MSC: Primary 14; 11; Secondary 31;

Let $K$ be a global field, and let $X/K$ be an equidimensional, geometrically reduced projective variety. For an ample line bundle $\overline{\mathcal L}$ on $X$ with norms $\|\ \|_v$ on the spaces of sections $K_v \otimes_K \Gamma(X,\mathcal{L}^{\otimes n})$, we prove the existence of the sectional capacity $S_\gamma(\overline{\mathcal L})$, giving content to a theory proposed by Chinburg. In the language of Arakelov Theory, the quantity $-\log(S_\gamma(\overline{\mathcal L}))$ generalizes the top arithmetic self-intersection number of a metrized line bundle, and the existence of the sectional capacity is equivalent to an arithmetic Hilbert-Samuel Theorem for line bundles with singular metrics.

In the case where the norms are induced by metrics on the fibres of ${\mathcal L}$, we establish the functoriality of the sectional capacity under base change, pullbacks by finite surjective morphisms, and products. We study the continuity of $S_\gamma(\overline{\mathcal L})$ under variation of the metric and line bundle, and we apply this to show that the notion of $v$-adic sets in $X(\mathbb C_v)$ of capacity $0$ is well-defined. Finally, we show that sectional capacities for arbitrary norms can be well-approximated using objects of finite type.

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in algebraic geometry.

• Chapters
• Introduction
• 1. The standard hypotheses
• 2. The definition of the sectional capacity
• 3. Reductions
• 4. Existence of the monic basis for very ample line bundles
• 5. Zaharjuta’s construction
• 6. Local capacities
• 7. Existence of the global sectional capacity
• 8. A positivity criterion
• 9. Base change
• 10. Pullbacks
• 11. Products
• 12. Continuity, Part I
• 13. Continuity, Part II
• 14. Local capacities of sets
• 15. Approximation theorems
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