Speaker: Kalina Mincheva (Yale)

Title: The Picard group of a tropical toric scheme

Abstract: Through the process of tropicalization one obtains from an algebraic variety $X$ a combinatorial object called the tropicalization of $X$, $trop(X)$, that retains a lot of information about the original variety. Following the work of J. Giansiracusa and N. Giansiracusa, one can endow $trop(X)$ with more structure, to obtain a tropical scheme. Loosely speaking, we consider more equations than the ones needed to determine the tropical variety. We are interested what information about the original variety $X$ is preserved by the tropical scheme $X_\mathbb{T}$ (but possibly not by the tropical variety). In particular, we study the relation between the Picard group of $X$ and $X_\mathbb{T}$. We solve the problem in the case when $X$ is a toric variety.