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Birational Geometry of Toric Varieties

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Introduction to the Mori Program

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This chapter is intended as a coffee break after the previous thirteen chapters of hard work. We will just play around with the tone varieties and see all the ingredients of the Mori program at work in terms of the concrete geometry of convex cones, following the paper Reid [5]. It is more of my personal note to his beautiful paper, only to “draw legs on the picture of a snake”

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Matsuki, K. (2002). Birational Geometry of Toric Varieties. In: Introduction to the Mori Program. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5602-9_15

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