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Joshua Enwright

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arXiv2026

Complexity one varieties are cluster type

The complexity of a Calabi-Yau pair $(X,B)$ is an invariant that relates the dimension of $X$, the rank of the group of divisors, and the coefficients of $B$. If the complexity is less than one, then $X$ is a toric variety. We prove that if the complexity is less than two, then $X$ is a Fano type variety. Furthermore, if the complexity is less than 3/2, then $X$ admits a Calabi-Yau structure of complexity one and index at most two, and it admits a finite cover $Y \to X$ of degree at most 2, where $Y$ is a cluster type variety. In particular, if the complexity is one and the index is one, $(X,B)$ is cluster type. Finally, we establish a connection with the theory of $T$-varieties. We prove that a variety of $T$-complexity one admits a similar finite cover from a cluster type variety.

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arXiv2025

Fano compactifications of mutation algebras

In this article, we introduce the notion of mutation semigroup algebras. This concept simultaneously generalizes cluster algebras and semigroup algebras. We show that, under some mild conditions on the singularities, the spectrum $U={\rm Spec}(R)$ of a mutation semigroup algebra $R$ admits a log Fano compactification $U\hookrightarrow X$. The compactification $X$ can be chosen to be a $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial log Fano variety whenever $U$ is $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial. Furthermore, we prove that a $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial klt Fano variety $X$ is of cluster type if and only if its Cox ring ${\rm Cox}(X)$ is a ${\rm Cl}(X)$-graded mutation semigroup algebra. In order to enlighten the previous theorems, we provide several explicit examples motivated by birational geometry, representation theory, and combinatorics.

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arXiv2025

Characterization of products of projective spaces via nef complexity

We define the nef complexity of a projective variety $X$. This invariant compares $\dim X+ρ(X)$ with the sum of the coefficients of nef partitions of $-K_X$. We prove that the nef complexity is non-negative and it is zero precisely for products of projective spaces. We classify smooth Fano threefolds with nef complexity at most one. In a similar vein, we prove Mukai's conjecture for smooth Fano varieties for which every extremal contraction is of fiber type and study smooth images of products of projective spaces. Along the way, we answer positively a question of J. Starr regarding the nef cone of smooth Fano varieties.

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arXiv2024

Log Calabi--Yau pairs of complexity zero and arbitrary index

In this article, we give a characterization of log Calabi--Yau pairs of complexity zero and arbitrary index. As an application, we show that a log Calabi--Yau pair of birational complexity zero admits a crepant birational model which is a generalized Bott tower.

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arXiv2024

Log Calabi-Yau pairs of birational complexity zero

In this article, we study the geometry of log Calabi-Yau pairs $(X,B)$ of index one and birational complexity zero. Firstly, we propose a conjecture that characterizes such pairs $(X,B)$ in terms of their dual complex and the rationality of their log canonical places. Secondly, we show that for these pairs the open set $X\setminus B$ is divisorially covered by open affine subvarieties which are isomorphic to open subvarieties of algebraic tori. We introduce and study invariants that measure the geometry and the number of these open subvarieties of algebraic tori. Thirdly, we study boundedness properties of log Calabi-Yau pairs of index one and birational complexity zero. For instance, in dimension $2$ we prove that such pairs are affinely bounded.

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