Moment maps, strict linear precision, and maximum likelihood degree one

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2020.107233MaRDI QIDQ2189502zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Patrick Clarke, David A. Cox

Publication date 15 June 2020

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03672

zbMATH Keywords

blending functionHorn parametrizationmaximum likelihood degreemoment maptoric variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Point estimation (62F10)

Abstract: We study the moment maps of a smooth projective toric variety. In particular, we characterize when the moment map coming from the quotient construction is equal to a weighted Fubini-Study moment map. This leads to an investigation into polytopes with strict linear precision, and in the process we use results from and find remarkable connections between Symplectic Geometry, Geometric Modeling, Algebraic Statistics, and Algebraic Geometry.

Review text

In this article, the authors study the quotient moment map and the Fubini-Study moment map associated to a smooth projective variety. These two moment maps are not generally equal, as it is illustrated in the paper one can begin see differences between these maps even in the case of projective space. The authors characterize when the moment map coming from the quotient construction is equal to a weighted Fubini-Study moment map. This characterization leads to an investigation into polytopes with strict linear precision and to reveal remakable connections between Symplectic Geometry, Geometric Modeling, Algebraic Statistics, and Algebraic Geometry.

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