Is every toric variety an M-variety?

DOI10.1007/S00229-006-0004-ZMaRDI QIDQ2502192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Franz, Clint McCrory, J. van Hamel, Frédéric Bihan

Publication date 12 September 2006

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510228

zbMATH Keywords

real algebraic varietiesSmith-Thom inequalityspectral sequencestoric varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Topology of real algebraic varieties (14P25)

Abstract: A complex algebraic variety X defined over the real numbers is called an M-variety if the sum of its Betti numbers (for homology with closed supports and coefficients in Z/2) coincides with the corresponding sum for the real part of X. It has been known for a long time that any nonsingular complete toric variety is an M-variety. In this paper we consider whether this remains true for toric varieties that are singular or not complete, and we give a positive answer when the dimension of X is less than or equal to 3.

Review text

A real algebraic variety is called an \(M\)-variety if its total Betti number with \({\mathbb Z}/2\) coefficients equals the total Betti number of its complexification (the latter number always is greater or equal to the former one by the Smith-Thom inequality). A real structure on a toric variety is called standard if it is standard on the big torus. It is well-known that a real standard non-singular toric variety is an \(M\)-variety. The authors extend this result to real standard singular toric varieties of dimension \(\leq 3\) or having only isolated singularities.

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