Canonical heights of toric subvarieties (Q2344346)

In the paper under review, the author introduces a new approach to the problem of computing the canonical height of projective toric varieties. Given \(\mathcal A= \{a_0,\ldots,a_n\}\) a family of vectors of \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) and \(\beta \in (\overline{\mathbb{Q}}^*)^{n+1}\), one can associate to them a projective toric variety \(X_{\mathcal A, \beta} \subset \mathbb{P}_{\overline{\mathbb{Q}}}^n\) following the construction of \textit{I. M. Gelfand} et al. [Discriminants, resultants, and multidimensional determinants. Reprint of the 1994 edition. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser (2008; Zbl 1138.14001)]. The authors provide a formula for the canonical height of \(X_{\mathcal A, \beta}\), provided \(X_{\mathcal A, \beta}\) is a complete intersection defined by the polynomials \(R_1,\dots,R_{n-d}\) and the projective variety defined by \(R_k,\dots,R_{n-d}\) is integral for all \(k \in \{1,\dots,n-d\}\). The author applies this formula to compute explicitly the canonical height of several examples of toric varieties. The results of this paper provide a partial alternative method to that of \textit{P. Philippon} and \textit{M. Sombra} [J. Inst. Math. Jussieu 7, No. 2, 327--373 (2008; Zbl 1147.11033)] to compute the canonical height of a toric variety.