Victor Batyrev “Combinatorial construction of minimal models of nondegenerate toric hypersurfacess“

It is our pleasure to share the Big Seminar talk “Combinatorial construction of minimal models of nondegenerate toric hypersurfacess“ by Victor Batyrev. Abstract: The talk will be devoted to a new elementary combinatorial construction of minimal projective birational models of complex hypersurfaces defined by zeros of a Laurent polynomial f in d complex variables. The proposed construction is based on combinatorial methods of convex geometry that connect the Newton polytope of a Laurent polynomial f with toric varieties. Seminars schedule and archive are available here -