Building on a recent paper [8], here we argue that the combinatorics of matroids are intimately related to the geometry and topology of toric hyperkähler varieties. We show that just like toric varieties occupy a central role in Stanley’s proof for the necessity of McMullen’s conjecture (or g-inequalities) about the classification of face vectors of simplicial polytopes, the topology of toric hyperkähler varieties leads to new restrictions on face vectors of matroid complexes. Namely in this paper...

Soient $K$ un corps global, $T$ un $K$-tore, $S$ un ensemble fini de places de $K$. On note $K_v$ le complété de $K$ en $v\in S$. Soit $T\left(K\right)$, resp. $T\left(K_v\right)$, le groupe des points $K$-rationnels, resp. $K_v$-rationnels, de $T$. Notons $T\left(O_v\right)\subset T\left(K_v\right)$ le sous-groupe compact maximal. Nous montrons que pour $T$ et $S$ convenables l’application $T\left(K\right)\to {\prod }_{v\in S}T\left(K_v\right)/T\left(O_v\right)$ induite par l’application diagonale n’est pas surjective. Cela implique que pour $v$ convenable le groupe $T\left(O_v\right)$ ne couvre pas forcément toutes les classes de $R$-équivalence de $T\left(K_v\right)$. Lorsque $K$ est un corps de fonctions d’une variable...

Let X be an affine T-variety. We study two different quotients for the action of T on X: the toric Chow quotient X/C T and the toric Hilbert scheme H. We introduce a notion of the main component H 0 of H, which parameterizes general T-orbit closures in X and their flat limits. The main component U 0 of the universal family U over H is a preimage of H 0. We define an analogue of a universal family WX over the main component of X/C T. We show that the toric Chow morphism restricted on the main components...

Let X be an algebraic toric variety with respect to an action of an algebraic torus S. Let Σ be the corresponding fan. The aim of this paper is to investigate open subsets of X with a good quotient by the (induced) action of a subtorus T ⊂ S. It turns out that it is enough to consider open S-invariant subsets of X with a good quotient by T. These subsets can be described by subfans of Σ. We give a description of such subfans and also a description of fans corresponding to quotient varieties. Moreover,...