Irrational toric varieties and secondary polytopes (Q2136835)

The authors develop a theory of \textit{irrational toric varieties} associated to arbitrary fans in real vector spaces, and use this theory to prove that the moduli space of Hausdorff limits of a projective irrational toric variety with the secondary polytope of a configuration of real vectors \(\mathcal{A}\). The results in this paper parallel some on classical toric varieties but their proofs require different methods as fundamental facts from algebraic geometry do not hold for irrational toric varieties. These methods are condensed from [\textit{A. Pir}, Irrational toric varieties. Texas A\& M University (PhD Thesis) (2018), \url{https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/187124453.pdf}]. The main motivation to study toric varieties comes from applications of toric varieties in geometric modeling, see for instance \textit{R. Krasauskas}, Adv. Comput. Math. 17, No. 1--2, 89--113 (2002; Zbl 0997.65027); \textit{G. Craciun} et al., Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 5862, 111--135 (2010; Zbl 1274.65033); \textit{L. García-Puente} et al., ACM Trans. Graphics, 30(5), \#110 (2011)]. In \textit{E. Postinghel} et al., J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 92, No. 2, 223--241 (2015; Zbl 1366.14047)] it was proved that when \(\mathcal{A}\) is a configuration of real vectors, the space of translates of the irrational toric variety \(Z_{\mathcal{A}}\) and their Hausdorff limits can be understood set-theoretically in terms of the secondary fan of \(\mathcal{A}\). In this paper, the authors promote this set-theoretical approach.