Vanishing theorems on toric varieties. (Q1854642)

In the article a characteristic-free approach to vanishing results on arbitrary toric varieties is developed. The approach is based on Cox's description of sheaves on toric varieties and results about local cohomology with respect to monomial ideals. The author shows that the vanishing of a certain cohomology group depending on a Weil divisor is implied by the vanishing of the analogous cohomology group involving a higher multiple of that divisor. A generalization of a theorem of Kawamata and Viehweg for toric varieties is obtained and a strong version of Fujita's Conjecture in the case of a smooth complete toric variety is proved. In order to prove the main results, the author summarizes the construction of the homogeneous coordinate ring suitably generalized to be applicable also to toric varieties defined by a degenerate fan. It is proved that every quasicoherent sheaf on a toric variety comes from a graded module over the homogeneous coordinate ring, generalizing the result of D.Cox for the simplicial case. The relation between the local cohomology of modules and the cohomology of the associated sheaves is described. Also a toric Nakai criterion is extended from the simplicial case to an arbitrary complete toric variety.