We generalize the standard combinatorial techniques of toric geometry to the
study of log Calabi-Yau surfaces. The character and cocharacter lattices are
replaced by certain integral linear manifolds described by Gross, Hacking, and
Keel, and monomials on toric varieties are replaced with the canonical theta
functions which GHK defined using ideas from mirror symmetry. We describe the
tropicalizations of theta functions and use them to generalize the dual pairing
between the character and cocharacter lattices. We use this to describe
generalizations of dual cones, Newton and polar polytopes, Minkowski sums, and
finite Fourier series expansions. We hope that these techniques will generalize
to higher-rank cluster varieties.Comment: 40 pages, 2 figures. The final publication is available at Springer
via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00029-015-0221-y, Selecta Math. (2016