Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)
Abstract: We identify a combinatorial quantity (the alternating sum of the h-vector) defined for any simple polytope as the signature of a toric variety. This quantity was introduced by Charney and Davis in their work, which in particular showed that its non-negativity is closely related to a conjecture of Hopf on the Euler characteristic of a non-positively curved manifold. We prove positive (or non-negative) lower bounds for this quantity under geometric hypotheses on the polytope. These hypotheses lead to ampleness (or weaker conditions) for certain line bundles on toric divisors, and then the lower bounds follow from calculations using the Hirzebruch Signature Formula. Moreoever, we show that under these hypotheses on the polytope, the i-th L-class of the corresponding toric variety is (-1)^i times an effective class for any i.
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