Wedge operations and torus symmetries

TL;DR

This paper explores the relationship between topological toric manifolds and simplicial wedge operations, providing classifications, proofs, and criteria for projectivity and realizability in the context of toric geometry.

Contribution

It introduces new classifications and proofs related to topological toric manifolds, especially focusing on Picard number 3 and simplicial wedge operations.

Findings

Classified smooth toric varieties of Picard number 3.

Provided a new proof of projectivity for Picard number 3 toric varieties.

Established a criterion for projectivity over joins of boundaries of simplices.

Abstract

A fundamental result of toric geometry is that there is a bijection between toric varieties and fans. More generally, it is known that some class of manifolds having well-behaved torus actions, called topological toric manifolds $M^{2n}$, can be classified in terms of combinatorial data containing simplicial complexes with $m$ vertices. We remark that topological toric manifolds are a generalization of smooth toric varieties. The number $m-n$ is known as the Picard number when $M^{2n}$ is a {compact smooth} toric variety. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the topological toric manifolds over a simplicial complex $K$ and those over the complex obtained by simplicial wedge operations from $K$. As applications, we do the following. 1. We classify smooth toric varieties of Picard number 3. This is a reproving of a result of Batyrev. 2. We give a new and complete proof of projectivity of smooth toric varieties of Picard number 3 originally proved by Kleinschmidt and Sturmfels. 3. We find a criterion for a toric variety over the join of boundaries of simplices to be projective. When the toric variety is smooth, it is known as a generalized Bott manifold which is always projective. 4. We classify and enumerate real topological toric manifolds when $m-n=3$. 5. When $m-n \leq 3$, any real topological toric manifold is realizable as fixed points of the conjugation of a topological toric manifold.