Extremal Picard-number conjecture for non-splittable toric Fano manifolds

Let XX be a toric Fano dd-fold with d3d\geq 3. Call XX non-splittable if it is not a product of two lower-dimensional toric Fano manifolds, and let ρX\rho_X denote its Picard number.

Non-splittable extremal conjecture. One has

ρX4d+33,\rho_X\leq \frac{4d+3}{3},

with equality if and only if d=3dd=3d' for a positive integer dd' and XX is isomorphic to a uniquely determined toric (S3)2d(S_3)^{2d'}-bundle over Pd\mathbb P^{d'}.

This is proposed as a refinement of Casagrande's upper bound, motivated by classification results in low dimensions. The source gives no resolution, so the conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

Benjamin Assarf and Benjamin Nill, “A bound for the splitting of smooth Fano polytopes with many vertices”, arXiv:1409.7303 (2015).

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