Tropical and Berkovich analytic curves

Series
Tropical Geometry Seminar
Time
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 10:05am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Matt Baker – Georgia Tech – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~mbaker/
Organizer
Josephine Yu
We will discuss the relationship between a Berkovich analytic curve over a complete and algebraically closed non-Archimedean field and its tropicalizations, paying special attention to the natural metric structure on both sides. This is joint work with Sam Payne and Joe Rabinoff.