On Oda's strong factorization conjecture

DOI10.2748/TMJ/1309952085MaRDI QIDQ719171zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sergio Da Silva, Kalle Karu

Publication date 10 October 2011

Published in Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4693

zbMATH Keywords

birational mapfactorizationtoric variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational and birational maps (14E05) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)

Abstract: The Oda's Strong Factorization Conjecture states that a proper birational map between smooth toric varieties can be decomposed as a sequence of smooth toric blowups followed by a sequence of smooth toric blowdowns. This article describes an algorithm that conjecturally constructs such a decomposition. Several reductions and simplifications of the algorithm are presented and some special cases of the conjecture are proved.

Review text

The strong factorization conjecture states that any birational map between smooth varieties can be factored by a sequence of blow ups of smooth centers, followed by a sequence of smooth blow downs. In this full generality almost nothing is known. The work of \textit{J. Włodarczyk} [in: Proceedings of the international congress of mathematicians (ICM). Zürich: European Mathematical Society (EMS). 653-682 (2006; Zbl 1113.14012)], suggests that the toric version of this conjecture, known as Oda conjecture, could be an important step in the direction of the general conjecture. The authors of the paper under review propose a conjectural solution to Oda's conjecture in the form of an algorithm that performs the factorization. The algorithm is explained in detail and worked out in some cases. It is still conjectural the finiteness of the algorithm.

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