Blow-ups and blow-downs of toric orbifolds
Speaker:
Soumen Sarkar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Date and Time:
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 10:00am to 10:50am
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
In this talk, I'll recall the concepts of retraction sequence of a simple polytope and discuss the effects of blow-ups and blow-downs on the retraction sequence. Then I'll introduce new toric orbifolds by the blow-ups and blow-downs of a toric orbifold. Then we show that new torsions in integral cohomology of toric orbifolds do not arise after blow-ups and blow-downs under mild hypothesis. As a consequence we get the polytopal J-construction as blow-down. This results provide an infinite collection of (p-torsion) free toric orbifolds. This is a joint work with Koushik Brahma and Subhankar Sau.