English

Primitive Collections and Toric Varieties

Algebraic Geometry 2008-09-03 v2

Abstract

This paper studies Batyrev's notion of primitive collection. We use primitive collections to characterize the nef cone of a quasi-projective toric variety whose fan has convex support, a result stated without proof by Batyrev in the smooth projective case. When the fan is non-simplicial, we modify the definition of primitive collection and explain how our definition relates to primitive collections of simplicial subdivisons. The paper ends with some open problems.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0808.1836,
  title  = {Primitive Collections and Toric Varieties},
  author = {David A. Cox and Christine von Renesse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1836},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

A new proof of Batyrev's theorem, based on ideas of Kresch, is included and Conjecture 4.4 has been deleted since it is wrong

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