Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 152 2 a i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The product fan for has rays generated byand maximal cones and . The given fan is obtained by the star subdivision of the first maximal cone throughBy the toric blowup at a torus-fixed point, this subdivision blows up the torus-fixed point corresponding to . Hencefor that torus-fixed point .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 152 2 a iv Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The inverse image of the dense torus is represented by the subfan formed from cones mapping to the zero cone of the target fan. These areThis is the fan of the projective line in the -axis, together with the zero fan in the complementary -direction. By the product fan construction,It also follows geometrically because the blowup center lies over zero, so the blowup is unchanged over .