On the full, strongly exceptional collections on toric varieties with Picard number three (Q644467)

The leading question of this article is King's conjecture, whether there exists a full, strongly exceptional collection of line bundles on a toric Fano variety. Toric varieties were classified by \textit{V. Batyrev} [Tohoku Math. J. II. Ser. 43, No. 4, 569--585 (1991; Zbl 0792.14026)] using so-called primitive collections (i.e., minimal sets of rays of the fan which do not form a cone in the fan). The authors restrict to a family of toric varieties of Picard rank three with a certain type of this primitive collections. For these varieties, the authors give an explicit collection of line bundles. To show that it is indeed a strongly exceptional collection, the necessary cohomology vanishing is established by using ideas from \textit{L. Borisov} and \textit{Z. Hua} [Adv. Math. 221, No. 1, 277--301 (2009; Zbl 1210.14006)]. Fullness is deduced by showing explicitly that all line bundles are generated by this collection. Moreover, this article deals with a construction by \textit{A. Bondal} [Oberwolfach Rep. 5/2006, 284--286 (2006; Zbl 1110.14300)] that produces a generating set of line bundles which, in some cases, contains a full, strongly exceptional collection. This construction is done by extending the morphism \(t \mapsto t^m\) of the torus to a morphism on the entire variety. Then the push-forward of a line bundle splits into line bundles. The push-forward can be computed in positive characteristic by an algorithm of \textit{J. F. Thomsen} [J. Algebra 226, No. 2, 865--874 (2000; Zbl 0957.14036)]. The authors adept this algorithm for characteristic zero and show that this construction by Bondal does not always contain such an exceptional collection, even for toric Fano varieties.