Degenerated Calabi–Yau varieties with infinite components, moduli compactifications, and limit toroidal structures

Abstract

For any degenerating Calabi–Yau family, we introduce a new limit space which we call galaxy, whose dense subspace is the disjoint union of countably infinite open Calabi–Yau varieties, parametrized by the rational points of the Kontsevich–Soibelman’s essential skeleton, while dominated by the Huber adification over the Puiseux series field. Other topics include: projective limits of toroidal compactifications (Sect. 3), locally modelled on limit toric varieties (Sect. 2.4), the way to attach a tropicalized family to a given Calabi–Yau family (Sect. 4), which are weakly related to each other.