Introduction to Toric Varieties. (Am-131), Volume 131

by William Fulton

Toric varieties are algebraic varieties arising from elementary geometric and combinatorial objects such as convex polytopes in Euclidean space with vertices on lattice points. Since many algebraic geometry notions such as singularities, birational maps, cycles, homology, intersection theory, and Riemann-Roch translate into simple facts about polytopes, toric varieties provide a marvelous source of examples in algebraic geometry. In the other direction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691000492
• ISBN13: 9780691000497
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.5"