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A semigroup $\mathbb{N}\mathcal{A}$ is saturated in $M$ if and only if $\mathbb{N}\mathcal{A}=\text{Cone}(\mathcal{A})\cap M$
I'll first recall some definitions here for convenience. Given a finite set $S$ in a real vector space $V$, $$\text{Cone}(S)=\{\sum\limits_{u\in S} \lambda_u u\mid \lambda_u\geq 0\}.$$ An affine ...
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Simplicial Toric Varieties
I am trying to solve an exercise in the well known book "Toric Varieties" by Cox, Little and Schenck:
Prop $4.2.7$: Let $X_\Sigma$ be the toric variety of the fan $\Sigma$. Then the ...
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A basis for the Picard group of the blow up at $\mathbb{P}^2$ at two points
(Toric) Intro: (Superflous, just to consider the initial data)
From a toric point of view, the blow up of $\mathbb{P}^2$ at two points (which we can assume are $[0:1:0]$ and $[0:0:1]$ is given by a ...
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Couple of questions about Picard group of $\mathbb{C}^*$
I'd like to compute the Picard group of $\mathbb{P}^n\times \mathbb{C}^*$.
So using toric geometry I've easily found $\text{Cl}(\mathbb{P}^n\times \mathbb{C}^*)\simeq \text{Cl}(\mathbb{P}^n)\oplus\...
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How can I determine whether my variety is toric or not?
Assume throughout that $X$ is a normal rational variety over $\mathbb{C}$. Is there a way to determine whether or not $X$ is a toric variety? I am particularly interested in the following examples.
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Rational Normal Cone of degree d
Consider the surface in $\mathbb{C}^{d+1}$ parametrized by the map
$$\theta:\mathbb{C}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{C}^{d+1}$$
defined by $(s,t)\rightarrow(s^d,s^{d-1}t,\dots,st^{d-1},t^d)$
And $J_d=\...
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Is the cotangent bundle to $P^2$ a toric variety?
Is the cotangent bundle to the complex projective plane, $T^* P^2$, a toric variety?
More generally, is there a criterion for when a vector bundle over a toric variety is a toric variety?
For example,...
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Two equivalent definitions of fibration structure on toric CY $3$-fold
I've been trying to reconcile two seemingly different definitions of what a toric space is, specifically a toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold. The first definition is from the paper Branes and Toric Geometry, by ...
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The idea behind Delzant construction of a toric manifold from a convex polytope
I am trying to understand how to visualize a symplectic toric manifold from its moment polytope, following chapter 29.4 in "Lectures on Symplectic Geometry" by Ana Cannas da Silva: https://people.math....
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The dual of a regular polyhedral cone is regular
A rational polyhedral cone in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is a set of the form
$$\sigma=\{\lambda_1x_1+\dots+\lambda_kx_k\in \mathbb{R}^n\mid \lambda_i\in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0} \; \;\forall \, 1\leq i\leq k\}$$
for ...
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What happens with subdivisions of normal fans in Sage?
I've been trying to compute specific subdivisions of a particular 4D complete fan, to try to speed up computations I have started looking into using Sage. The problem I'm having is that I would like ...
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Is the quotient of a toric variety by a finite group still toric
Suppose $X$ is a toric variety with fan $\Sigma$, and the lattice of its torus is $N$. Suppose there is a representation of finite group $G$,
\begin{equation}
\phi:G \rightarrow \text{GL}(N \otimes_{\...
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Toric surfaces among rational surfaces
I'm learning about rational surfaces. Precisely, I've just read that all minimal rational projective, smooth surfaces are $\mathbb{P}^2$ and the Hirzebruch surfaces $\mathbb{F}_n$, for $n=0,2,3,\ldots$...
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Recovering data about the toric fan from minimal information
I am a physics grad student studying toric diagrams since they naturally arise in the description of certain gauge theories obtained by compactifying M/F-theory on Calabi-Yau 3-folds. In this context, ...
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Intersection numbers from matrix of divisors and relations
There is a specific procedure to "read-off" or "compute" intersection products of divisors and curves, and of divisors and exceptional divisiors, from the so called matrix of relations (I don't know ...
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Question about the relation between the Weierstrass equation and weighted projective space
I am reading a review on Toric Geometry for string theorists by Harald Skarke (arXiv:hep-th/9806059). In section 3, the author says
A standard way of describing an elliptic curve is by embedding it ...
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When is a projective space smooth from the toric perspective?
I am studying the lecture notes on toric geometry (for physicists) by Bouchard (arxiv:hep-th/0702063) and Skarke (arXiv:hep-th/9806059). In these lecture notes, the authors give the following ...
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Determining wall crossings in toric geometry
In toric geometry, we can describe manifolds by specifying a fan, which is roughly a collection of cones (of various dimensions) in an $n$-dimensional lattice. Many topological properties can be ...
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Is the nodal curve a toric variety?
Let $k$ be a field with $2 \in k^{\times}$, set $A:= k[x,y,z]/(y^{2}z = x^{3}+x^{2}z)$ and let $X := \operatorname{Proj} A$ be the nodal curve. The normalization of $X$ is a morphism $\pi : \mathbb{P}...
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Does a strongly convex cone have a unique set of minimal generators?
I am studying toric varieties from the book "Toric Varieties" by Cox, Little and Schenck. They define rays as the edges of a strongly convex cone, $\sigma$. Each ray, $\rho$ has a unique ray generator ...
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twisting sheaf of toric projective bundle
Let $X_{\Sigma} = \mathbb{P}_{X_{\Sigma'}}(\mathcal{L_1}\oplus\mathcal{L_2}),X_{\Sigma'}$ be toric varieties ('good' if it's necessary), $\mathcal{L}_i\in \mathrm{Pic}(X_{\Sigma'})$ and $\pi:X_{\...
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Atiyah flop, flip and related toric computation
I am trying to understand the definitions of flips and flops by studying
examples in this article of Hacon and McKernan. I would like to ask why the toric varieties constructed in Ex. 1.13 are indeed ...
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What is the Newton polyhedron of a toric variety?
First of all I want to say that my knowledge of toric geometry is minimal.
A paper I'm reading considers a toric variety $X$ and then claims that in its Newton polyhedron, $\Delta(X)$, the fixed ...
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Why is this not a cartier divisor?
Consider the lattice
$$N=\{(a,b,c)\in\mathbb{Z}^3\mid a+b+c\equiv 0\mod 2\}$$
and the Cone
$$\sigma=Cone(e_1,e_e,e_3)\subset N_{\mathbb{R}}\cong \mathbb{R}^3$$
The associated affine toric variety $X_{\...
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toroidal compactifications of moduli spaces of ppav
Are the modular toroidal compactifications of ppav's (second Voronoi) defined by Alexeev without self-intersections? i.e. are the irreducible component of the boundary divisor normal? If not, can one ...
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toric variety associated to schur polynomial?
In a Schur polynomial, which is homogeneous, monomials are added with fixed coefficients. Collecting the indices of monomials seems to define a toric data for a projective variety. But the ...
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Induced map on cohomology from inclusion of toric varieties
Suppose you have an equivariant closed immersion of toric varieties $Y \subset X$, and suppose further that they are both smooth (meaning that the torus of $X$ restricts to the torus on $Y$). Suppose ...
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Reference for a result in toric geometry
I want to know where I can find the proof of the following theorem : if $X$ is a smooth toric variety, then $H^{\bullet}(X) \cong CH^{\bullet}(X)$.
Thanks in advance !
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First Chern class of toric manifolds
I have been reading a Mirror Symmetry monograph, and its physical arguments seem to imply that all toric manifolds have semipositive-definite first Chern class.
Is this true, and if yes, how does ...
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What do we know about the set of all fans?
I know the question is not very rigorous, but I have been trying to prove some facts about toric varieties and I think giving this set some structure would be very helpful.
So, suppose you fix a ...
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Relation between fan and toric variety
I understand what a fan is, but I don't really know how it associated to a toric variety. Could a non-toric variety has a fan?
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Why take the dual cone when constructing toric variety?
I am reading an introduction to toric varieties. I don't understand why we are taking the monoid associated to the dual cone instead of simply taking the monoid associated to the cone. Is there any ...
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example of toric varieties with nontrivial first cohomology group
If I remember correctly, when a toric variety is smooth or simplical (the moment polytope is simplicial rational), then there is no odd dimensional cohomology group and the dimension of the even ...
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Zariski closure of $T:= \{(t_1,t_2,t_3,t_1t_2t_3^{-1})|t_i\in \mathbb{C}^*\}\subseteq \mathbb{C}^4$?
Let $V= \mathcal{V}(\langle xy-zw\rangle)\subseteq \mathbb{C}^4$ be an affine variety. The set $T:= \{(t_1,t_2,t_3,t_1t_2t_3^{-1})|t_i\in \mathbb{C}^*\}$ is a torus contained in $V$. I am trying to ...
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How to find the distinguished points of this cone?
Consider the cone - $\langle e_1,-e_1+2e_2\rangle$ in the lattice $N=\mathbb Z^2$. Then it has the following faces -
$0=\{(0,0)\}$
$\rho_1=\langle e_1\rangle$
$\rho_2=\langle-e_1+2e_2\rangle$
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How does one determine the singular points of a toric variety?
Consider the toric surface corresponding to the fan $\Delta$ consisting of $$\sigma_1=\langle e_1,-e_1+2e_2\rangle$$ $$\sigma_2=\langle-e_1+2e_2,-e_1-2e_2\rangle$$ $$\sigma_3=\langle -e_1-2_2,e_1\...
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Is this toric variety the blowup of $\mathbb C^2$ at some point?
Let $u_1=e_1,\quad u_0=e_1+2e_2,\quad u_2=e_2$. Consider the fan consisting of the following cones $\sigma_1= \langle u_1,u_0\rangle$, $\sigma_2=\langle u_0,u_2\rangle$ and their faces. Then the toric ...
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Does this theorem hold for real part of a toric variety? + Reference request - Real toric varieties.
Let $X$ be a complex toric variety and let $X_\mathbb R$ be its real part, that is the $X_\mathbb R$ consists of all the real valued points of $X$.
I would like to learn a little more about the ...
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The lattice points in the real cone of some semigroups are just the integer cone of that semigroup.
I'm trying to solve an exercise in Fulton's book on toric varieties, and have reduced it to the following:
Let $M$ be a lattice of rank $n$ with $M \otimes \mathbb{R} = V$, and $S$ be a finitely ...
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whats wrong with this counterexample to closed subgroups of a Torus are a torus
In Cox Little and Schenck, one result that is cited in chapter two is that if $D_n$ is the $n-dimensional$ torus, and $H < D_n$ is a closed subgroup then $H$ is itself a torus. Let the underlying ...
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Has toric ideal something to do with torus?
I am studying ideals such as toric ideals but I am unable to find a consistent definition, it seems to be very general so please explain the origin of "toric ideal". Is there a geometric ...
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Key reference book on toric ideals: normal or not? Which definition to follow?
I want to understand sum of binomials better in terms of ideals such as binomial ideals, normal ideals and so by toric ideals. Examples about toric ideals contain $$\sum x^\alpha+\sum x^\beta\in\...
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affine variety/space vs. toric variety
I think I'm not quite clear on the meaning of a toric variety...
Could someone explain the relation/difference between the affine variety/space and the toric variety?
I know that affine variety ...
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On two-dimensional non-singular complete toric varieties
Let $v_0,v_1,\dots,v_d=v_0$ be a sequence of lattice points in $\mathbb Z^2$, in counterclockwise order (see figure below), such that successive pairs generate $\mathbb Z^2$ as a $\mathbb Z$-module.
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Realizing $\mathbf{C}$ as 1-dimensional normal toric variety
Take $N = \mathbf{Z}$, $N_\mathbf{R} = \mathbf{R}$. Then I know that the only cones are the intervals $\sigma_+ = [0,\infty)$, $\sigma_- =(-\infty,0]$, and $\tau = \{0\}$.
Consider the fans $\{\...
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Can the quotient by a nonabelian group yield an abelian singularity?
Let $V$ be a complex vector space with a faithful linear action of a finite group $G$. Viewing $V$ as affine space (with coordinate ring $\mathbb{C}[V]$), the quotient $V/G$ is the affine variety with ...
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Examples of homogeneous polynomials that define $\mathbb{P}^n$
The complex projective space $\mathbb{P}^n$ is also a projective variety. According to Hartshorne, a projective variety is defined a s the zero set of a subset of homogeneous polynomials defined on $\...
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Toric variety corresponding to coordinate axes in $\mathbb{R}^2$
I have just learned how to construct a toric variety from a fan and I am a bit confused. Let $\Sigma$ be the fan that consists of the coordinate axes in $\mathbb{R}^2$, i.e. $\Sigma = \{ \sigma_0, \...
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Toric varieties
I've started to read about toric varieties and I have a couple of questions about the definition. There is an example that says the following:
"Given a lattice $N$, an isomorphism $N \simeq \mathbb{Z}...
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What is this action of $\mathbb Z_2$ on $\mathbb C^2$ that gives the following affine toric variety?
Let $\sigma$ be the cone in $\mathbb R^2$ given by $\langle e_1, e_1+2e_2\rangle$. The corresponding affine variety $U_\sigma=\mathcal{Z}(x^2-yz)\subseteq \mathbb C^3$
I am trying to understand the ...
