It is a long-standing question whether an arbitrary variety is desingularized by finitely many normalized Nash blow-ups. We consider this question in the case of a toric variety. We interpret the normalized Nash blow-up in polyhedral terms, show how continued fractions can be used to give an affirmative answer for a toric surface, and report on a computer investigation in which over a thousand 3- and 4-dimensional toric varieties were successfully resolved.
Given an arbitrary projective birational morphism of varieties, we provide a natural and explicit way of constructing relative compactifications of the maps induced on the main components of the jet schemes. In the case the morphism is the Nash blow-up of a variety, such relative compactifications are shown to be given by the Nash blow-ups of the main components of the jet schemes.
We call a sheaf on an algebraic variety immaculate if it lacks any cohomology including the zero-th one, that is, if the derived version of the global section functor vanishes. Such sheaves are the basic tools when building exceptional sequences, investigating the diagonal property, or the toric Frobenius morphism. In the present paper we focus on line bundles on toric varieties. First, we present a possibility of understanding their cohomology in terms of their (generalized) momentum polytopes. Then we present a method to exhibit the entire locus of immaculate divisors within the class group. This will be applied to the cases of smooth toric varieties of Picard rank two and three and to those being given by splitting fans. The locus of immaculate line bundles contains several linear strata of varying dimensions. We introduce a notion of relative immaculacy with respect to certain contraction morphisms. This notion will be stronger than plain immaculacy and provides an explanation of some of these linear strata.
We use a polyhedral criterion for the existence of diagonal splittings to investigate which toric varieties X are diagonally split. Our results are stated in terms of the vector configuration given by primitive generators of the 1-dimensional cones in the fan defining X. We show, in particular, that X is diagonally split at all q if and only if this configuration is unimodular, and X is not diagonally split at any q if this configuration is not 2-regular. We also study implications for the possibilities for the set of q at which a toric variety X is diagonally split.
We prove a universal property for blow-ups in regularly immersed subschemes, based on a notion we call virtual effective Cartier divisor. We also construct blow-ups of quasi-smooth closed immersions in derived algebraic geometry.
We study the proalgebraic space which is the inverse limit of all finite branched covers over a normal toric variety $X$ with branching set the invariant divisor under the action of $(mathbb{C}^*)^n$. This is the proalgebraic toric-completion $X_{mathbb{Q}}$ of $X$. The ramification over the invariant divisor and the singular invariant divisors of $X$ impose topological constraints on the automorphisms of $X_{mathbb{Q}}$. Considering this proalgebraic space as the toric functor on the adelic complex plane multiplicative semigroup, we calculate its automorphic group. Moreover we show that its vector bundle category is the direct limit of the respective categories of the finite toric varieties coverings defining the proalgebraic toric-completion.