Toric variety

About: Toric variety is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2630 publications have been published within this topic receiving 65604 citations. The topic is also known as: torus embedding.

Limits of tropicalizations

Abstract: We give general criteria under which the limit of a system of tropicalizations of a scheme over a nonarchimedean field is homeomorphic to the analytification of the scheme. As an application, we show that the analytification of an arbitrary closed subscheme of a toric variety is naturally homeomorphic to the limit of its tropicalizations, generalizing an earlier result of the third author for quasiprojective varieties.

Asymptotic analysis of toric ideals

Abstract: This partially expository note extends and refines our earlier work on Grobner bases of toric varieties [14]. It is closely related to the theory of A-hypergeometric functions due to Gel′fand Graev, Kapranov and Zelevinsky (see § 6). The main new result in this note is the characterization of the universal Grobner basis of a unimodular toric ideal (see § 5).

Twisted forms of toric varieties

Abstract: We consider the set of forms of a toric variety over an arbitrary field: those varieties which become isomorphic to a toric variety after base field extension. In contrast to most previous work, we also consider arbitrary isomorphisms rather than just those that respect a torus action. We define an injective map from the set of forms of a toric variety to a non-abelian second cohomology set, which generalizes the usual Brauer class of a Severi-Brauer variety. Additionally, we define a map from the set of forms of a toric variety to the set of forms of a separable algebra along similar lines to a construction of A. Merkurjev and I. Panin. This generalizes both a result of M.~Blunk for del Pezzo surfaces of degree 6, and the standard bijection between Severi-Brauer varieties and central simple algebras

R-charges from toric diagrams and the equivalence of a-maximization and Z-minimization

Abstract: We conjecture a general formula for assigning R-charges and multiplicities for the chiral fields of all gauge theories living on branes at toric singularities. We check that the central charge and the dimensions of all the chiral fields agree with the information on volumes that can be extracted from toric geometry. We also analytically check the equivalence between the volume minimization procedure discovered in hep-th/0503183 and a-maximization, for the most general toric diagram. Our results can be considered as a very general check of the AdS/CFT correspondence, valid for all superconformal theories associated with toric singularities.

Toric flat families, valuations, and tropical geometry over the semifield of piecewise linear functions

Abstract: Using the notion of a valuation into the semifield of piecewise linear functions, we give a classification of torus equivariant flat families of finite type over a toric variety base, by certain piecewise linear maps between fans. As a consequence we derive a classification of toric vector bundles phrased in terms of tropicalized linear spaces. We use these tools to give a characterization of the Mori dream space property for a projectivized toric vector bundle.