Introduction to toric varieties am 131 volume 131 william fulton paperback isbn 9780691000497 7500 gbp6200 shipping to add to cart ebooks many of our ebooks are available for purchase from these online vendors google play many of our ebooks are available through library electronic resources including these platforms books at jstor ebsco ebooks ebrary myilibrary ebook library . Toric varieties as a subject came more or less independently from the work of several people primarily in connection with the study of compactification problems1 this compactification description gives a simple way to say what a toric variety is it is a normal variety x that contains a torus t as a dense open subset together with an action t x x x of t on x that extends the natural . Fulton gives an excellent overview of toric varieties in this short book and the reading is fairly easy going he introduces toric varieties in the first chapter as objects originating from compactification studies with projective n space the natural example as a compactification of complex n space it is their definition in terms of fans in lattices however that permeates chapter one the . Prices in us apply to orders placed in the americas only prices in gbp apply to orders placed in great britain only prices in eur represent the retail prices valid in germany unless otherwise indicated. Title introduction to toric varieties am 131 by fulton william published by princeton university press paperback author galleryctsnetorg philipp nadel 2021 01 15 01 46 01