Toric Vector Bundles Research Articles

Algebra and geometry of irreducible toric vector bundles of rank n on [formula omitted]

We construct a presentation for the Cox ring of the projectivization PE of any rank n irreducible toric vector bundle on Pn. We use this presentation to show that PE always satisfies Fujita's freeness and ampleness conjectures.

Tropical Lagrangian multisections and toric vector bundles

Tropical Lagrangian multisections and toric vector bundles

Cox rings of projectivized toric vector bundles and toric flag bundles

Work of González, Hering, Payne, and Süß shows that it is possible to find both examples and non-examples of Mori dream spaces among projectivized toric vector bundles. This result, and the combinatorial nature of the data of projectivized toric vector bundles make them an ideal test class for the question: what makes a variety a Mori dream space? In the present paper we consider this question with respect to natural algebraic operations on toric vector bundles.Suppose E is a toric vector bundle such that the projectivization PE is a Mori dream space, then when are the direct sum toric vector bundles P(E⊕E), P(E⊕E⊕E)… also Mori dream spaces? We give an answer to this question utilizing a relationship with the associated full flag bundle FL(E). We describe several classes of examples, and we compute a presentation for the Cox ring of the full flag bundle for the tangent bundle of projective space.

Stellahedral geometry of matroids

Abstract We use the geometry of the stellahedral toric variety to study matroids. We identify the valuative group of matroids with the cohomology ring of the stellahedral toric variety and show that valuative, homological and numerical equivalence relations for matroids coincide. We establish a new log-concavity result for the Tutte polynomial of a matroid, answering a question of Wagner and Shapiro–Smirnov–Vaintrob on Postnikov–Shapiro algebras, and calculate the Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson classes of matroid Schubert cells. The central construction is the ‘augmented tautological classes of matroids’, modeled after certain toric vector bundles on the stellahedral toric variety.

Toric principal bundles, piecewise linear maps and Tits buildings

We define the notion of a piecewise linear map from a fan $\Sigma$ to $\tilde{\mathfrak{B}}(G)$, the cone over the Tits building of a linear algebraic group $G$. Let $X_\Sigma$ be a toric variety with fan $\Sigma$. We show that when $G$ is reductive the set of integral piecewise linear maps from $\Sigma$ to $\tilde{\mathfrak{B}}(G)$ classifies the isomorphism classes of (framed) toric principal $G$-bundles on $X_\Sigma$. This in particular recovers Klyachko's classification of toric vector bundles, and gives new classification results for the orthogonal and symplectic toric principal bundles.

Toric vector bundles: GAGA and Hodge theory

We prove a GAGA-style result for toric vector bundles with smooth base and give an algebraic construction of the Frölicher approximating vector bundle that has recently been introduced by Dan Popovici using analytic techniques. Both results make use of the Rees-bundle construction.

A direct proof that toric rank $2$ bundles on projective space split

The point of this paper is to give a short, direct proof that rank $2$ toric vector bundles on $n$-dimensional projective space split once $n$ is at least $3$. This result is originally due to Bertin and Elencwajg, and there is also related work by Kaneyama, Klyachko, and Ilten-Süss. The idea is that, after possibly twisting the vector bundle, there is a section which is a complete intersection.

Toric vector bundles on Bott tower

In this paper, using Klyachko's classification theorem we study positivity and semi-stability of toric vector bundles on a class of nonsingular projective toric varieties, known as Bott towers. In particular, we give a criterion of s-jet ampleness of line bundles and characterize nef and big line bundles on Bott towers using Bott numbers. We obtain a criterion for the ampleness of discriminant zero semi-stable toric vector bundles on nonsingular projective toric varieties. We also describe toric subbundles of toric vector bundles on nonsingular toric varieties.

Toric vector bundles and parliaments of polytopes

We introduce a collection of convex polytopes associated to a torus-equivariant vector bundle on a smooth complete toric variety. We show that the lattice points in these polytopes correspond to generators for the space of global sections and we relate edges to jets. Using the polytopes, we also exhibit toric vector bundles that are ample but not globally generated, and toric vector bundles that are ample and globally generated but not very ample.

$F$-split and $F$-regular varieties with a diagonalizable group action

Let $H$ be a diagonalizable group over an algebraically closed field $k$ of positive characteristic, and $X$ a normal $k$-variety with an $H$-action. Under a mild hypothesis, e.g. $H$ a torus or $X$ quasiprojective, we construct a certain quotient log pair $(Y,\Delta)$ and show that $X$ is F-split (F-regular) if and only if the pair $(Y,\Delta)$ if F-split (F-regular). We relate splittings of $X$ compatible with $H$-invariant subvarieties to compatible splittings of $(Y,\Delta)$, as well as discussing diagonal splittings of $X$. We apply this machinery to analyze the F-splitting and F-regularity of complexity-one $T$-varieties and toric vector bundles, among other examples.

Morse theory and toric vector bundles

Morelli's computation of the K-theory of a toric variety X associates a polyhedrally constructible function on a real vector space to every equivariant vector bundle E on X. The coherent-constructible correspondence lifts Morelli's constructible function to a complex of constructible sheaves kappa(E). We show that certain filtrations of the cohomology of kappa(E) coming from Morse theory coincide with the Klyachko filtrations of the generic stalk of E. We give Morse-theoretic (i.e. microlocal) conditions for a complex of constructible sheaves to correspond to a vector bundle, and to a nef vector bundle.

Cox rings and pseudoeffective cones of projectivized toric vector bundles

We study projectivizations of a special class of toric vector bundles that includes cotangent bundles, whose associated Klyachko filtrations are particularly simple. For these projectivized bundles, we give generators for the cone of effective divisors and a presentation of the Cox ring as a polynomial algebra over the Cox ring of a blowup of a projective space along a sequence of linear subspaces. As applications, we show that the projectivized cotangent bundles of some toric varieties are not Mori dream spaces and give examples of projectivized toric vector bundles whose Cox rings are isomorphic to that of M_{0,n}.

Vector bundles on toric varieties

Following Sam Payneʼs work, we study the existence problem of nontrivial vector bundles on toric varieties. The first result we prove is that every complete fan admits a nontrivial conewise linear multivalued function. Such functions could potentially be the Chern classes of toric vector bundles. Then we use the results of Cortiñas, Haesemeyer, Walker and Weibel to show that the (non-equivariant) Grothendieck group of the toric 3-fold studied by Payne is large, so the variety has a nontrivial vector bundle. Using the same computation, we show that every toric 3-fold X either has a nontrivial line bundle, or there is a finite surjective toric morphism from Y to X, such that Y has a large Grothendieck group.

ON THE STABILITY OF SYZYGY BUNDLES

We are concerned with the problem of the stability of the syzygy bundles associated to base-point-free vector spaces of forms of the same degree d on the projective space of dimension n. We deduce directly, from M. Green's vanishing theorem for Koszul cohomology, that any such bundle is stable if its rank is sufficiently high. With a similar argument, we prove the semistability of a certain syzygy bundle on a general complete intersection of hypersurfaces of degree d in the projective space. This answers a question of H. Flenner [Comment. Math. Helv.59 (1984) 635–650]. We then give an elementary proof of H. Brenner's criterion of stability for monomial syzygy bundles, avoiding the use of Klyachko's results on toric vector bundles. We finally prove the existence of stable syzygy bundles defined by monomials of the same degree d, of any possible rank, for n at least 3. This extends the similar result proved, for n = 2, by L. Costa, P. Macias Marques and R. M. Miro-Roig [J. Pure Appl. Algebra214 (2010) 1241–1262]. The extension to the case n at least 3 has been also, independently, obtained by P. Macias Marques in his thesis [arXiv:0909.4646/math.AG (2009)].

Okounkov bodies on projectivizations of rank two toric vector bundles

The global Okounkov body of a projective variety is a closed convex cone that encodes asymptotic information about every big line bundle on the variety. In the case of a rank two toric vector bundle E on a smooth projective toric variety, we use its Klyachko filtrations to give an explicit description of the global Okounkov body of P ( E ) . In particular, we show that this is a rational polyhedral cone and that P ( E ) is a Mori dream space.

Positivity properties of toric vector bundles

We show that a torus-equivariant vector bundle on a complete toric variety is nef or ample if and only if its restriction to every invariant curve is nef or ample, respectively. Furthermore, we show that nef toric vector bundles have a nonvanishing global section at every point and deduce that the underlying vector bundle is trivial if and only if its restriction to every invariant curve is trivial. We apply our methods and results to study, in particular, the vector bundles ℳ L that arise as the kernel of the evaluation map H 0 (X,L)⊗𝒪 X →L, for ample line bundles L. We give examples of twists of such bundles that are ample but not globally generated.

Computations with equivariant toric vector bundles

The study of equivariant vector bundles on a toric variety can yield important geometric information about the underlying variety. The package ToricVectorBundles facilitates calculations with such equivariant vector bundles. This package implements two complimentary descriptions of vector bundles and allows for standard operations such as dualizing, direct sums, and tensor, symmetric, and wedge products. Furthermore, ToricVectorBundles contains two procedures for calculating the graded cohomology groups of an equivariant vector bundle. THE PACKAGE AND ITS APPLICATIONS. When studying vector bundles on a toric variety, it is natural to first restrict attention to those bundles which are equivariant with respect to the torus

Moduli of toric vector bundles

AbstractWe give a presentation of the moduli stack of toric vector bundles with fixed equivariant total Chern class as a quotient of a fine moduli scheme of framed bundles by a linear group action. This fine moduli scheme is described explicitly as a locally closed subscheme of a product of partial flag varieties cut out by combinatorially specified rank conditions. We use this description to show that the moduli of rank three toric vector bundles satisfy Murphy’s law, in the sense of Vakil. The preliminary sections of the paper give a self-contained introduction to Klyachko’s classification of toric vector bundles.

Toric vector bundles, branched covers of fans, and the resolution property

We associate to each toric vector bundle on a toric variety X ( Δ ) X(\Delta ) a “branched cover” of the fan Δ \Delta together with a piecewise-linear function on the branched cover. This construction generalizes the usual correspondence between toric Cartier divisors and piecewise-linear functions. We apply this combinatorial geometric technique to investigate the existence of resolutions of coherent sheaves by vector bundles, using singular nonquasiprojective toric threefolds as a testing ground. Our main new result is the construction of complete toric threefolds that have no nontrivial toric vector bundles of rank less than or equal to three. The combinatorial geometric sections of the paper, which develop a theory of cone complexes and their branched covers, can be read independently.

Piecewise polynomials, Minkowski weights, and localization on toric varieties

We use localization to describe the restriction map from equivariant Chow cohomology to ordinary Chow cohomology for complete toric varieties in terms of piecewise polynomial functions and Minkowski weights. We compute examples showing that this map is not surjective in general, and that its kernel is not always generated in degree one. We prove a localization formula for mixed volumes of lattice polytopes and, more generally, a Bott residue formula for toric vector bundles.