Toric ideals, real toric varieties, and the algebraic moment map

Toric ideals, real toric varieties, and the moment map

This is a tutorial on some aspects of toric varieties related to their potential use in geometric modeling. We discuss projective toric varieties and their ideals, as well as real toric varieties and the moment map. In particular, we explain the relation between linear precision and the moment map.

Symplectic Toric Manifolds

Foreword These notes cover a short course on symplectic toric manifolds, delivered in six lectures at the summer school on Symplectic Geometry of Integrable Hamiltonian Systems, mostly for graduate students, held at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica in Barcelona in July of 2001. The goal of this course is to provide a fast elementary introduction to toric manifolds (i.e., smooth toric varieties)...

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Lower Bounds in Real Algebraic Geometry and Orientability of Real Toric Varieties

The real solutions to a system of sparse polynomial equations may be realized as a fiber of a projection map from a toric variety. When the toric variety is orientable, the degree of this map is a lower bound for the number of real solutions to the system of equations. We strengthen previous work by characterizing when the toric variety is orientable. This is based on work of Nakayama and Nishi...

Toric Ideals in Algebraic Statistics Toric Ideals in Algebraic Statistics

Toric Ideals in Algebraic Statistics