International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 536475, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/536475
Research Article

The Numerical Class of a Surface on a Toric Manifold

Faculty of Economics and Information, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University, 1-38 Nakauzura, Gifu 500-8288, Japan

Received 29 January 2012; Accepted 24 February 2012

Academic Editor: Harvinder S. Sidhu

Copyright © 2012 Hiroshi Sato. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

In this paper, we give a method to describe the numerical class of a torus invariant surface on a projective toric manifold. As applications, we can classify toric 2-Fano manifolds of the Picard number 2 or of dimension at most 4.