• Nov 6, 2025 introduction to toric varieties am 131 the william ly, an algebraic torus \( T \) over a field \( \mathbb{K} \) (usually \( \mathbb{C} \)) is isomorphic to \( (\mathbb{K}^)^n \), where \( n \) is the dimension of the torus. A toric variety \( X \) can be characterized by the following properties: It contains \( T \) as a dense open subset. The a BY Angelica Schneider