Robert Krzyzanowski : Toric Varieties

Posted by , part of the Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

At

Sept. 1, 2011, 4 p.m.

In

SEO 712

Abstract

We will introduce toric varieties, normal varieties that contain an algebraic torus as a dense open subset such that the action of the torus on itself extends naturally to the full variety. We will start with the standard construction given by piecing together strongly convex rational polyhedral cones.