Homogeneous deformations of toric pairs (Q2049518)

In the study of pairs consisting of a variety with a divisor a recent work by \textit{M. Gross} et al. [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 122, 65--168 (2015; Zbl 1351.14024)] suggests that mirror symmetry, originally formulated for Calabi-Yau varieties, is better understood as a correspondence between log Calabi-Yau pairs, i.e. pairs \((X,B)\) where \(X\) is a variety and \(B\) is an effective divisor such that \(K_X+B\) is linearly trivial. Toric pairs, i.e. pairs \((X,\partial X)\) where \(X\) is a toric variety with toric boundary \(\partial X\), are one of the simplest examples of log Calabi-Yau pairs. The main result of the paper extends the Altmann-Mavlyutov construction of homogeneous deformations of affine toric varieties to the case of toric pairs [\textit{K. Altmann}, Tohoku Math. J. (2) 47, No. 2, 151--184 (1995; Zbl 0842.14037); \textit{A. Mavlyutov}, ``Deformations of toric varieties via Minkowski sum decompositions of polyhedral complexes'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:0902.0967}]. It states that given a Minkowski decomposition of a polyhedron satisfying certain conditions, one can construct a formal deformation of the pair \((X,\partial X)\) over a power series ring in finitely many variables over \(\mathbb{C}\).