Toric varieties whose canonical divisors are divisible by their dimensions

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Abstract: We totally classify the projective toric varieties whose canonical divisors are divisible by their dimensions. In Appendix, we show that Reid's toric Mori theory implies Mabuchi's characterization of the projective space for toric varieties.


Let \(X\) be an \(n\)-dimensional, projective, toric \(\mathbb{Q}\)-Gorenstein variety. If \(K_X\) is a \(N\)-th multiple (with \(N\in\mathbb{Q}_{>0}\)) inside \(\text{Pic} X\), then it follows from the author's paper [Tohoku Math. J., II. Ser. 55, No. 4, 551--564 (2003; Zbl 1078.14077)] that \(N\leq n\) unless \(X=\mathbb{P}^n\). As a sequel to [loc. cit.], the present paper is devoted to the next extremal case, namely to \(N=n\). If \(X\) is \(\mathbb{Q}\)-factorial, then this equality implies that either \(X=\mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(\oplus_i\mathcal O(q_i))\) is a projective bundle or that \(X=\mathbb{P}(1,1,2,\ldots,2)\). In the non-\(\mathbb{Q}\)-factorial case, \(X\) equals the target space of the flopping contraction of \(\mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(\mathcal O^{n-2}\oplus\mathcal O(1)^2)\).











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