Tensor-generating line bundles on toric varieties
Abstract
A line bundle is ⊗-generating if its powers generate the derived category of perfect complexes. Refining the derived Nakai--Moishezon criterion of Ito--Olander, we characterize ⊗-generating line bundles on proper toric varieties by a combinatorial criterion on the fan, leading to the notion of ⊗-generating fans characterizing ⊗-generating canonical bundles. Furthermore, we prove an analogue of Kleiman's criterion of ampleness for ⊗-generation. As applications, we provide several examples including: (i) smooth proper fourfolds with no ⊗-generating line bundle, by showing that products of two or more positive-dimensional proper toric varieties admit a ⊗-generating line bundle only when they are projective, (ii) families of smooth non-projective proper threefolds with ⊗-generating canonical bundles. Finally, we study subvarieties obstructing ⊗-generation of canonical bundles and implications to autoequivalences of derived categories.
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BibTeX
@misc{ito2026tensorgenerating,
title = {{Tensor-generating line bundles on toric varieties}},
author = {Daigo Ito and Michael R. Zeng and Xiangru Zeng},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.22279},
eprint = {2610.22279},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22279},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Tensor-generating line bundles on toric varieties
AU - Daigo Ito
AU - Michael R. Zeng
AU - Xiangru Zeng
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/15
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.22279
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22279
AB - A line bundle is ⊗-generating if its powers generate the derived category of perfect complexes. Refining the derived Nakai--Moishezon criterion of Ito--Olander, we characterize ⊗-generating line bundles on proper toric varieties by a combinatorial criterion on the fan, leading to the notion of ⊗-generating fans characterizing ⊗-generating canonical bundles. Furthermore, we prove an analogue of Kleiman's criterion of ampleness for ⊗-generation. As applications, we provide several examples including: (i) smooth proper fourfolds with no ⊗-generating line bundle, by showing that products of two or more positive-dimensional proper toric varieties admit a ⊗-generating line bundle only when they are projective, (ii) families of smooth non-projective proper threefolds with ⊗-generating canonical bundles. Finally, we study subvarieties obstructing ⊗-generation of canonical bundles and implications to autoequivalences of derived categories.
ER -