Tits-type Alternative for Groups Acting on Toric Affine Varieties

Tits alternative for 3-manifold groups

Let M be an irreducible, orientable, closed 3-manifold with fundamental group G. We show that if the pro-p completion Ĝp of G is infinite then G is either soluble-by-finite or contains a free subgroup of rank 2.

The Tits alternative for generalised tetrahedron groups

A generalised tetrahedron group is the colimit of a triangle of groups whose vertex groups are generalised triangle groups and whose edge groups are finite cyclic. We prove an improved Spelling Theorem for generalised triangle groups which enables us to compute the precise Gersten-Stallings angles of this triangle of groups, and hence obtain a classification of generalised tetrahedron groups ac...

Affine Cones over Algebraic Varieties and Embeddings into Toric Prevarieties

Minicourse on Toric Varieties

1. Varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Characters and 1-Parameter Subgroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3. Toric Varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Lectures on Toric Varieties

1 Four constructions 1 1.1 First construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Second construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3 Third construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.4 Fourth construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...