Monge-Amp\`ere measures on balanced polyhedral spaces

TL;DR

This paper develops a framework for Monge-Ampère measures on balanced polyhedral spaces, extending classical concepts using tropical intersection theory, and explores solutions to related equations with applications to non-archimedean pluripotential theory.

Contribution

It introduces a novel construction of Monge-Ampère measures on polyhedral spaces and analyzes polyhedral Monge-Ampère equations through a variational approach, linking to non-archimedean theory.

Findings

Established compactness for polyhedrally plurisubharmonic functions

Constructed Monge-Ampère measures for piecewise affine functions

Provided conditions and counterexamples for solutions to polyhedral Monge-Ampère equations

Abstract

We study classes of convex functions on balanced polyhedral spaces and establish various structural properties, including a compactness theorem for polyhedrally plurisubharmonic functions. Using tropical intersection theory, we construct Monge--Amp\`ere measures, first associated with piecewise affine functions, and then we extend it to polyhedrally plurisubharmonic functions. We investigate polyhedral Monge--Amp\`ere equations on balanced polyhedral spaces via a variational approach, providing sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions as well as explicit counterexamples. Finally, we relate our framework to non-archimedean pluripotential theory and explore its connection with the non-archimedean Monge--Amp\`ere equation.