A characterization of Gorenstein toric Del Pezzo $n$-folds

Shoetsu Ogata, Huai-Liang Zhao

Published 2014-10-30Version 1

We give a characterizaion of Gorenstein toric Fano $n$-folds with index $n-1$, which is called Gorenstein toric Del Pezzo $n$-folds, among toric varieties. In practice, we obtain a condition for a lattice $n$-polytope to be a Gorenstein Fano polytope. In our proof, we do not use Batyrev-Juny's classification of Gorenstein Fano polytopes.