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I have been reading a Mirror Symmetry monograph, and its physical arguments seem to imply that all toric manifolds have semipositive-definite first Chern class.

Is this true, and if yes, how does one show this rigorously?

Solution from physics:

In Chapter 7 (page 102) of the Mirror Symmetry monograph, it is said that "Toric varieties can be described as the set of ground states of an appropriately gauged linear sigma model (GLSM)". However, from Chapters 14 and 15 of the same book, it can be deduced that the GLSM can only provide a description of toric manifolds $X$ with $c_1(X)geq0$ (the reason is roughly that nonlinear sigma models for $X$ with $c_1(X)<0$ are not well-defined).

Thank you.

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I have been reading a Mirror Symmetry monograph, and its physical arguments seem to imply that all toric manifolds have semipositive-definite first Chern class.

Is this true, and if yes, how does one show this rigorously?

Solution from physics:

In Chapter 7 (page 102) of the Mirror Symmetry monograph, it is said that "Toric varieties can be described as the set of ground states of an appropriately gauged linear sigma model (GLSM)". However, from Chapters 14 and 15 of the same book, it can be deduced that the GLSM can only provide a description of toric manifolds $X$ with $c_1(X)geq0$ (the reason is roughly that nonlinear sigma models for $X$ with $c_1(X)<0$ are not well-defined).

Thank you.

algebraic-geometry mathematical-physics complex-geometry toric-geometry mirror-symmetry

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edited Mar 24 at 19:53

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asked Dec 31 '16 at 15:00

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  Sounds more like the questions people post on Math Overflow than those here!
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  Jan 2 '17 at 15:19
  

  
  
  
  

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$begingroup$

I have been reading a Mirror Symmetry monograph, and its physical arguments seem to imply that all toric manifolds have semipositive-definite first Chern class.

Is this true, and if yes, how does one show this rigorously?

Solution from physics:

In Chapter 7 (page 102) of the Mirror Symmetry monograph, it is said that "Toric varieties can be described as the set of ground states of an appropriately gauged linear sigma model (GLSM)". However, from Chapters 14 and 15 of the same book, it can be deduced that the GLSM can only provide a description of toric manifolds $X$ with $c_1(X)geq0$ (the reason is roughly that nonlinear sigma models for $X$ with $c_1(X)<0$ are not well-defined).

Thank you.

algebraic-geometry mathematical-physics complex-geometry toric-geometry mirror-symmetry

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edited Mar 24 at 19:53

Andrews

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asked Dec 31 '16 at 15:00

Meer AshwinkumarMeer Ashwinkumar

29017

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edited Mar 24 at 19:53

Andrews

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asked Dec 31 '16 at 15:00

Meer AshwinkumarMeer Ashwinkumar

29017

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edited Mar 24 at 19:53

Andrews

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asked Dec 31 '16 at 15:00

Meer AshwinkumarMeer Ashwinkumar

29017

edited Mar 24 at 19:53

Andrews

1,3012423

edited Mar 24 at 19:53

Andrews

1,3012423

asked Dec 31 '16 at 15:00

Meer AshwinkumarMeer Ashwinkumar

29017

asked Dec 31 '16 at 15:00

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No, this is not true. The simplest examples come from Hirzebruch surfaces, as discussed in Chapter 7 of the linked monograph. These are smooth projective toric surfaces obtained by projectivising rank-2 bundles over $mathbf P_1$, so they look like $F_n = mathbf P(O oplus O(n))$ for some natural number $n$. One can check that for $n geq 3$ this does not have semipositive first Chern class.

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No, this is not true. The simplest examples come from Hirzebruch surfaces, as discussed in Chapter 7 of the linked monograph. These are smooth projective toric surfaces obtained by projectivising rank-2 bundles over $mathbf P_1$, so they look like $F_n = mathbf P(O oplus O(n))$ for some natural number $n$. One can check that for $n geq 3$ this does not have semipositive first Chern class.

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No, this is not true. The simplest examples come from Hirzebruch surfaces, as discussed in Chapter 7 of the linked monograph. These are smooth projective toric surfaces obtained by projectivising rank-2 bundles over $mathbf P_1$, so they look like $F_n = mathbf P(O oplus O(n))$ for some natural number $n$. One can check that for $n geq 3$ this does not have semipositive first Chern class.

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answered Jan 2 '17 at 12:59

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$begingroup$

No, this is not true. The simplest examples come from Hirzebruch surfaces, as discussed in Chapter 7 of the linked monograph. These are smooth projective toric surfaces obtained by projectivising rank-2 bundles over $mathbf P_1$, so they look like $F_n = mathbf P(O oplus O(n))$ for some natural number $n$. One can check that for $n geq 3$ this does not have semipositive first Chern class.

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answered Jan 2 '17 at 12:59

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answered Jan 2 '17 at 12:59

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answered Jan 2 '17 at 12:59

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answered Jan 2 '17 at 12:59

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