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 . 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 . 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 . Introduction to toric varieties issue 131 of annals of mathematics studies issn 0066 2313 introduction to toric varieties william fulton william h roever lectures in geometry author william fulton edition illustrated reprint publisher princeton university press 1993 isbn 0691000492 9780691000497 length 157 pages subjects. Title introduction to toric varieties am 131 by fulton william published by princeton university press paperback author wikictsnetorg jessika weiss 2021 01 14 01 08 02