Smooth Fano polytopes arising from finite directed graphs (Q500825)

A lattice convex polytope is called a Fano polytope if the origin is the unique lattice point in its interior. Such a polytope is called terminal if any lattice point on its boundary is the vertex of the polytope. This paper is devoted to studying reflexive terminal Fano polytopes arising from finite directed graphs. Namely, the author investigates the situation when such a Fano polytope is smooth, that is its normal fan is smooth (nonsingular). It appears, that any centrally symmetric or pseudosymmetric smooth Fano polytope can be obtained from a directed graph (Theorem 3.3). Finally, in Example 4.4 the author gets a new family of symmetric smooth toric Fano varieties which admit Kähler-Einstein metrics by a theorem of \textit{V. V. Batyrev} and \textit{E. N. Selivanova} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 512, 225--236 (1999; Zbl 0939.32016)].