We give a characterization of all complete smooth toric varieties whose rational homotopy is of elliptic type. All such toric varieties of complex dimension not more than three are explicitly described.
We investigate the equivariant intersection cohomology of a toric variety. Considering the defining fan of the variety as a finite topological space with the subfans being the open sets (that corresponds to the toric topology given by the invariant o
pen subsets), equivariant intersection cohomology provides a sheaf (of graded modules over a sheaf of graded rings) on that fan space. We prove that this sheaf is a minimal extension sheaf, i.e., that it satisfies three relatively simple axioms which are known to characterize such a sheaf up to isomorphism. In the verification of the second of these axioms, a key role is played by equivariantly formal toric varieties, where equivariant and usual (non-equivariant) intersection cohomology determine each other by Kunneth type formulae. Minimal extension sheaves can be constructed in a purely formal way and thus also exist for non-rational fans. As a consequence, we can extend the notion of an equivariantly formal fan even to this general setup. In this way, it will be possible to introduce virtual intersection cohomology for equivariantly formal non-rational fans.
We prove that a degeneration rationally connected varieties over a field of characteristic zero always contains a geometrically irreducible subvariety which is rationally connected.
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 $X_{mat
hbb{Q}}$ 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.
We develop an analogue of Eisenbud-Floystad-Schreyers Tate resolutions for toric varieties. Our construction, which is given by a noncommutative analogue of a Fourier-Mukai transform, works quite generally and provides a new perspective on the relati
onship between Tate resolutions and Beilinsons resolution of the diagonal. We also develop a Beilinson-type resolution of the diagonal for toric varieties and use it to generalize Eisenbud-Floystad-Schreyers computationally effective construction of Beilinson monads.
Motivated by the study of the secant variety of the Segre-Veronese variety we propose a general framework to analyze properties of the secant varieties of toric embeddings of affine spaces defined by simplicial complexes. We prove that every such sec
ant is toric, which gives a way to use combinatorial tools to study singularities. We focus on the Segre-Veronese variety for which we completely classify their secants that give Gorenstein or $mathbb Q$-Gorenstein varieties. We conclude providing the explicit description of the singular locus.