Asymptotic cohomological functions of toric divisors (Q855508)

Let \(X\) be a complete \(n\)-dimensional toric variety and \(D\) a \(T\)-Weil divisor on \(X\). Set \(\hat{h}^i := \lim _m h^i(mD)\cdot n!/m^n\). The authors study these functions and show that they are piecewise polynomial with respect to a finite polyhedral chamber decomposition. They use \textit{D. Eisenbud}, \textit{M. Mustata} and \textit{M. Stillman} [J. Symb. Comput. 29, No.~4--5, 583--600 (2000; Zbl 1044.14028)]. As an application they give a formula for the self-intersection \((D^n)\) and prove that \(D\) is ample if and only if \(\hat{h}^i\) vanishes identically in a neighborhood of \(\text{Pic}(X)_{\mathbb {R}}\) for all \(i>0\). For arbitrary non-toric varieties the second author studied similar functions using \(\limsup\) instead of \(\lim\) in his 2004 University of Michigan Ph. D. thesis.