Uniqueness of the direct decomposition of toric manifolds

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Authors Miho Hatanaka

Publication date 15 June 2015

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0891, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1427202896

zbMATH Keywords

direct decompositiontoric manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Compact groups of homeomorphisms (57S10)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the uniqueness of the direct decomposition of a toric manifold. We first observe that the direct decomposition of a toric manifold as emph{algebraic varieties} is unique up to order of the factors. An algebraically indecomposable toric manifold happens to decompose as smooth manifold and no criterion is known for two toric manifolds to be diffeomorphic, so the unique decomposition problem for toric manifolds as emph{smooth manifolds} is highly nontrivial and nothing seems known for the problem so far. We prove that this problem is affirmative if the complex dimension of each factor in the decomposition is less than or equal to two. A similar argument shows that the direct decomposition of a smooth manifold into copies of $mathbbC{P}^1$ and simply connected closed smooth 4-manifolds with smooth actions of $(S^1{)}^2$ is unique up to order of the factors.

Review text

A toric variety is a normal algebraic variety of complex dimension \(n\) with a complex torus action having an open dense orbit. In general, a toric variety does not need to be compact or nonsingular. A compact nonsingular toric variety is called a toric manifold. A toric manifold that does not decompose into the product of two toric manifolds of positive dimension as algebraic varieties (resp. as smooth manifolds) is called algebraically indecomposable (resp. differentially indecomposable). The author studies the uniqueness of the direct decomposition of a toric manifold. He proves that the direct decomposition of a toric manifold into algebraically indecomposable toric manifolds as algebraic varieties is unique up to the order of the factors. He also proves that the direct decomposition of a toric manifold into differentially indecomposable toric manifolds is unique up to the order of the factors assuming the complex dimension of each factor is less or equal to two. He also uses a similar argument to show that the direct decomposition of a smooth manifold into copies of \({\mathbb{C}}P^{1}\) and simply connected closed smooth \(4\)-manifolds with smooth torus actions is unique up to the order of factors.

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