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Abstract
We study the non-archimedean counterpart to the complex amoeba of an algebraic variety, and show that it coincides with a polyhedral set defined by Bieri and Groves using valuations. For hypersurfaces this set is also the negative of the tropical variety of the defining polynomial. Using non-archimedean analysis and a recent result of Conrad we prove that the amoeba of an irreducible variety is connected. We introduce the notion of an adelic amoeba for varieties over global fields, and establish a form of the local-global principle for them. This principle is used to explain the calculation of the non-expansive set for a related dynamical system.
Received: 2005-08-24
Revised: 2005-11-21
Published Online: 2007-02-12
Published in Print: 2006-12-19
© Walter de Gruyter
