Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-152/1/a/solution

Take the weighted projective plane . Its fan in has rays generated by
and all three two-dimensional cones spanned by adjacent rays. Their union is , so the fan is complete and the toric variety is proper.
The determinants of the cones and have absolute value one, while
The smoothness criterion for a toric variety therefore shows that the affine chart for is singular; it is the cyclic quotient singularity of type . Thus is a singular proper toric surface.
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