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Canonical Toric Fano Threefolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Alexander M. Kasprzyk*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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An inductive approach to classifying all toric Fano varieties is given. As an application of this technique, we present a classification of the toric Fano threefolds with at worst canonical singularities. Up to isomorphism, there are 674,688 such varieties.

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