Semistable models of elliptic curves over residue characteristic 2

Given an elliptic curve E in Legendre form $y^2 = x(x - 1)(x - \lambda )$ over the fraction field of a Henselian ring R of mixed characteristic $(0, 2)$ , we present an algorithm for determining a semistable model of E over R that depends only on the valuation of $\lambda $ . We provide several examples along with an easy corollary concerning $2$ -torsion.

Effective Faithful Tropicalizations Associated to Adjoint Linear Systems

Let R be a complete discrete valuation ring of equi-characteristic zero with fraction field K. Let X be a connected smooth projective variety of dimension d over K, and let L be an ample line bundle over X. We assume that there exist a regular strictly semistable model ${\mathscr {X}}$ of X over R and a relatively ample line bundle ${\mathscr {L}}$ over ${\mathscr {X}}$ with $\left .{{\mathscr {L}}}\right \vert_{{X}} \cong L$. Let $S({\mathscr {X}})$ be the skeleton associated to ${\mathscr {X}}$ in the Berkovich analytification Xan of X. In this article, we study when $S({\mathscr {X}})$ is faithfully tropicalized into tropical projective space by the adjoint linear system |L⊗m ⊗ ωX|. Roughly speaking, our results show that if m is an integer such that the adjoint bundle is basepoint free, then the adjoint linear system admits a faithful tropicalization of $S({\mathscr {X}})$.