From Cracked Polytopes to Fano Threefolds

Abstract

We construct Fano threefolds with very ample anti-canonical bundle and Picard rank greater than one from cracked polytopes - polytopes whose intersection with a complete fan forms a set of unimodular polytopes - using Laurent inversion; a method developed jointly with Coates-Kasprzyk. We also give constructions of rank one Fano threefolds from cracked polytopes, following work of Christophersen-Ilten and Galkin. We explore the problem of classifying polytopes cracked along a given fan in three dimensions, and classify the unimodular polytopes which can occur as 'pieces' of a cracked polytope.

New introduction and section on the connection with the Gross-Siebert program. 46 pages