Vector Fields and the Cohomology Ring of Toric Varieties

Abstract

AbstractLetXbe a smooth complex projective variety with a holomorphic vector field with isolated zero setZ. From the results of Carrell and Lieberman there exists a filtrationF0⊂F1⊂ · · · ofA(Z), the ring of ℂ-valued functions onZ, such thatas graded algebras. In this note, for a smooth projective toric variety and a vector field generated by the action of a 1-parameter subgroup of the torus, we work out this filtration. Our main result is an explicit connection between this filtration and the polytope algebra ofX.