Gröbner bases of toric varieties (Q1812964): Difference between revisions

In this article projective toric varieties are studied from the viewpoint of Gröbner basis theory and combinatorics. We characterize the radicals of all initial ideals of a toric variety \(X_{{\mathcal A}}\) as the Stanley- Reisner ideals of regular triangulations of its set of weights \({\mathcal A}\). This implies that the secondary polytope \(\Sigma\) (\({\mathcal A})\) is a Minkowski summand of the state polytope of \(X_{{\mathcal A}}\). Here the lexicographic (resp. reverse lexicographic) initial ideals of \(X_{{\mathcal A}}\) arise from triangulations by placing (resp. pulling) vertices. We also prove that the state polytope of the Segre embedding of \({\mathbb{P}}^{r-1}\times {\mathbb{P}}^{s-1}\) equals the secondary polytope \(\Sigma (\Delta_{r-1}\times \Delta_{s-1})\) of a product of simplices.