A necessary condition for Chow semistability of polarized toric manifolds (Q654440)

Given a compact toric manifold \(X\) of complex dimension \(n\) and a torus equivariant polarisation \(L\), one can associate the so-called Delzant polytope \(P\subset \mathbb{R}^n\). The author proves that if \((X,L^k)\) is Chow semistable for \(k>0\) then the sum of integer points in \(kP\) is \[ k\{\mathrm{Card}(kP \cap \mathbb{Z}^n)\}\times \frac{1}{Vol(P)} \int_P xdv \] where \(dv\) is the euclidean volume form \(\mathbb{R}^n\), so a multiple of the barycenter of \(P\). Thus it provides a necessary condition on the polytope for the asymptotic Chow semistability of \((X,L)\). In the case of toric Fano manifold, the polytope is reflexive and using results of Wang-Zhu and Mabuchi the author provides a necessary and sufficient condition to be asymptotically Chow stable. The proof of the result is based on the work of Gelfand and Kapranov. One application is given for Hirzebruch surfaces. Another one is related to the remarkable example found by the author and his collaborators: a smooth toric Kähler-Einstein Fano 7-manifold that is not asymptotically Chow stable.