Toric manifold

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In mathematics, a toric manifold is a topological analogue of toric variety in algebraic geometry. It is an even-dimensional manifold with an effective smooth action of n-dim compact torus which is locally standard with the orbit space a simple convex polytope.

The aim is to do combinatorics on the quotient polytope and obtain information on the manifold above. For example the Euler characteristic, cohomology ring of the manifold can be described in terms of the polytope.