Fano schemes of complete intersections in toric varieties

We study Fano schemes $$\mathrm{F}_k(X)$$ F k ( X ) for complete intersections X in a projective toric variety $$Y\subset \mathbb {P}^n$$ Y ⊂ P n . Our strategy is to decompose $$\mathrm{F}_k(X)$$ F k ( X ) into closed subschemes based on the irreducible decomposition of $$\mathrm{F}_k(Y)$$ F k ( Y ) as studied by Ilten and Zotine. We define the “expected dimension” for these subschemes, which always gives a lower bound on the actual dimension. Under additional assumptions, we show that these subschemes are non-empty and smooth of the expected dimension. Using tools from intersection theory, we can apply these results to count the number of linear subspaces in X when the expected dimension of $$\mathrm{F}_k(X)$$ F k ( X ) is zero.

On the Hodge conjecture for quasi-smooth intersections in toric varieties

We establish the Hodge conjecture for some subvarieties of a class of toric varieties. First we study quasi-smooth intersections in a projective simplicial toric variety, which is a suitable notion to generalize smooth complete intersection subvarieties in the toric environment, and in particular quasi-smooth hypersurfaces. We show that under appropriate conditions, the Hodge conjecture holds for a very general quasi-smooth intersection subvariety, generalizing the work on quasi-smooth hypersurfaces of the first author and Grassi in Bruzzo and Grassi (Commun Anal Geom 28: 1773–1786, 2020). We also show that the Hodge Conjecture holds asymptotically for suitable quasi-smooth hypersurface in the Noether–Lefschetz locus, where “asymptotically” means that the degree of the hypersurface is big enough, under the assumption that the ambient variety $${{\mathbb {P}}}_\Sigma ^{2k+1}$$ P Σ 2 k + 1 has Picard group $${\mathbb {Z}}$$ Z . This extends to a class of toric varieties Otwinowska’s result in Otwinowska (J Alg Geom 12: 307–320, 2003).