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 b iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Letand let be the star subdivision of through the ray . Its maximal cones areSince , their images lie respectively inThus is a morphism of fans from to .
The toric blowup at a torus-fixed point identifiesMore explicitly, the blowup of affine space at the origin is the total space of . The induced toric morphismis its bundle projection: it sends a nonzero vector to its direction and restricts to the identity on the exceptional divisor . Therefore resolves the indeterminacy locus of .