Abelian surfaces in toric 4-folds (Q1291056)

We examine embeddings of minimal abelian surfaces \(A\) into smooth toric 4-folds \(X\) of Picard number 2. We show that for most \(X\) no such embeddings exist. For one particular \(X\), however, we exhibit a 2-dimensional family of abelian surfaces \(A\) embedded in \(X\), and hence a rank 2 vector bundle on \(X\). We use a simple description of morphisms from normal varieties into smooth toric varieties (based on joint work with T. Oda) to construct the embeddings.