Cracked polytopes and Fano toric complete intersections (Q785993): Difference between revisions

The context of the paper under review is the construction and classification of Fano varieties via mirror symmetry. Stemming from the Laurent inversion construction in [\textit{T. Coates} et al., Pure Appl. Math. Q. 15, No. 4, 1135--1179 (2019; Zbl 1439.14122)], the author introduces cracked polytopes. These, by definition, are such that their intersection with the minimal cones of a complete fan (\textit{shape}) is a set of unimodular polytopes. The paper connects the notion of cracked polytopes to embeddings of toric varieties \(X_P\) into possibly smooth ambient toric varieties \(Y\). Along with extra conditions, the (local) smoothness of \(Y\) is equivalent to requiring that \(P\) is cracked along a shape. The author mainly examines the case in which \(X_P\) embeds in \(Y\) as a complete intersection, making use of the \textit{scaffolding} technique. A particular attention is given to Fano polytopes, as cracked polytopes well describe toric degenerations of Fano varieties with very ample anticanonical divisor, especially in dimension 3 and 4.