Complete fan Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A fan is complete when the union of all its cones is the whole ambient real vector space. A toric variety is proper exactly when its fan is complete.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 152 1 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Take the weighted projective plane . Its fan in has rays generated byand 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, whileThe 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.