A counterexample to the maximality of toric varieties
Authors:
Valerie Hower
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
Abstract:
We present a counterexample to the conjecture of Bihan, Franz, McCrory, and van Hamel concerning the maximality of toric varieties. There exists a six dimensional projective toric variety with the sum of the Betti numbers of strictly less than the sum of the Betti numbers of .