The phase limit set of a variety

Mounir Nisse and Frank Sottile

A coamoeba is the image of a subvariety of a complex torus (C*)n under the argument map to the real torus (S1)n. We describe the structure of the boundary of the coamoeba of a variety, which we relate to its logarithmic limit set. Detailed examples of lines in three-dimensional space illustrate and motivate these results.
The manuscript in pdf.
Here are the coamoebae of a line and a plane in (C*)3. The links are to further pictures.

CoAmoeba of the line t --> (t-1, t-ζ, t2),
where ζ is a primitive third root of 1.

More coAmoebae of lines in (C*)3.

CoAmoeba of the plane x+y+z+1 =0 in (C*)3.
The coAmoeba of the plane and its phase-limit set.

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