Holomorphic characters on a toric fan realization #
An integral character nonnegative on every cone of a regular fan defines a holomorphic function on its analytic realization. The affine monomial functions agree under face localization, so they descend through the gluing. Their products correspond to sums of characters, and torus translation multiplies them by the corresponding character value. For a nonempty fan, these functions are the unique continuous extensions of the characters on its dense torus. Pullback along a toric map precomposes the character with the map of integral lattices.
References #
- W. Fulton, Introduction to Toric Varieties, §§1.3 and 3.1.
- D. Cox, J. Little and H. Schenck, Toric Varieties, §§1.2 and 3.1.
The holomorphic monomial function of an integral character nonnegative on every cone. Its restriction to each affine chart is evaluation on the corresponding monomial.
Instances For
The character function is the expected monomial on every affine chart.
Character functions transform by their character under torus translation.
The zero character defines the constant function one.
Addition of characters corresponds to multiplication of their holomorphic functions.
The glued character function is holomorphic for the canonical complex structure.
The global function restricts to the original character on the dense torus.
A continuous extension of a character from the dense torus is the glued character function. The nonempty hypothesis supplies the dense torus; the construction itself also allows empty fans.
Pullback of a global holomorphic character along a toric map is the character obtained by precomposition with its integral lattice map. Nonnegativity on the source follows from nonnegativity on the target and the fan-morphism condition.