Elementary birational maps between Mori toric fiber 3-spaces (Q2577352): Difference between revisions

Let \(X_i\) be threedimensional \(\mathbb Q\)-factorial projective toric varieties with at most terminal singularities and let \(\phi_i:X_i\rightarrow S_i\) be toric Mori fibrations, \(i=1\), \(2\). This means that \(\phi_i\) is a contraction of a \(K_{X_{i}}\)-negative extremal ray, \(S_i\) is a \(\mathbb Q\)-factorial toric variety and \(\dim S_i\leq 2\). The author is interested in birational maps between \(X_1\) and \(X_2\) which are compatible with \(\phi_1\) and \(\phi_2\). He uses results of Sarkisov who developed an algorithm for decomposing such birational maps into more elementary ones, namely extremal divisorial contractions, their inverses, and \(\log\)-flips [cf. \textit{K. Matsuki}, Introduction to the Mori program, Universitext (2002; Zbl 0988.14007)]. Three different types of decompositions (``links'') are considered, and lists for all possibilities of any of the three types are given, but there are only outlines of proofs without the combinatorial parts.