Toric singularities revisited

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2005.05.029MaRDI QIDQ2497420zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Howard M. Thompson

Publication date 4 August 2006

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305441

zbMATH Keywords

semigroup rings toric varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)

Abstract: In [Kat94b], Kato defined his notion of a log regular scheme and studied the local behavior of such schemes. A toric variety equipped with its canonical logarithmic structure is log regular. And, these schemes allow one to generalize toric geometry to a theory that does not require a base field. This paper will extend this theory by removing normality requirements.

Review text

A toric variety is a normal irreducible separated scheme \(X\), locally of finite type over a field \(k\), which contains an algebraic torus \(T\cong (k^\ast)^d\) as an open set and is endowed with an algebraic action \(T\times X\to X\) extending the group multiplication \(T\times T\to T\). \textit{K. Kato} extended the theory of toric geometry to an absolute theory, without base [Am. J. Math. 116 (5), 1073--1099 (1994; Zbl 0832.14002)] by replacing the notion of a toroidal embedding with the notion of a log structure. A toroidal embedding is a pair \((X,U)\) consisting of a scheme \(X\) locally of finite type and an open subscheme \(U\subset X\) such that \((X,U)\) is isomorphic, locally in the \(\acute{\text{e}}\)tale topology, to a pair consisting of a toric variety and its algebraic torus. A log structure on a scheme \(X\) is a morphism of sheaves of monoids \(\alpha: \mathcal M_X\to\mathcal O_X\) restricting to an isomorphism \(\alpha^{-1}\mathcal O_X^\ast\cong\mathcal O_X^\ast\). A toric variety equipped with its canonical logarithmic structure is log regular. Kato proved that fine saturated log regular schemes behave very much like toric varieties. For instance they are normal and Cohen-Macaulay. The author extends this theory by removing normality requirements.

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