A small and non-simple geometric transition

Following notation introduced in the recent paper \cite{Rdef}, this paper is aimed to present in detail an example of a "small" geometric transition which is not a "simple" one i.e. a deformation of a conifold transition. This is realized by means of a detailed analysis of the Kuranishi space of a Namikawa cuspidal fiber product, which in particular improves the conclusion of Y.~Namikawa in Remark 2.8 and Example 1.11 of \cite{N}. The physical interest of this example is presenting a geometric transition which can't be immediately explained as a massive black hole condensation to a massless one, as described by A.~Strominger \cite{Strominger95}.Comment: 22 pages. v2: final version to appear in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry. Minor changes: title, abstract, result in Remark 3 emphasized by Theorem 5, as suggested by a referee. Some typos correcte

Embedding non-projective Mori Dream Spaces

This paper is devoted to extend some Hu-Keel results on Mori dream spaces (MDS) beyond the projective setup. Namely, \Q-factorial algebraic varieties with finitely generated class group and Cox ring, here called \emph{weak} Mori dream spaces (wMDS), are considered. Conditions guaranteeing the existence of a neat embedding of a (completion of a) wMDS into a complete toric variety are studied, showing that, on the one hand, those which are complete and admitting low Picard number are always projective, hence Mori dream spaces in the sense of Hu-Keel. On the other hand, an example of a wMDS does not admitting any neat embedded \emph{sharp} completion (i.e. Picard number preserving) into a complete toric variety is given, on the contrary of what Hu and Keel exhibited for a MDS. Moreover, termination of the Mori minimal model program (MMP) for every divisor and a classification of rational contractions for a complete wMDS are studied, obtaining analogous conclusions as for a MDS. Finally, we give a characterization of a wMDS arising from a small \Q-factorial modification of a projective weak \Q-Fano variety.Comment: v4: Final version accepted for pubblication in Geometriae Dedicata. Minor changes. Adopting the Journal TeX-macros changed the statements' enumeration. 46 pages, 3 figure

Rate-Distortion Classification for Self-Tuning IoT Networks

Many future wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things are expected to follow a software defined paradigm, where protocol parameters and behaviors will be dynamically tuned as a function of the signal statistics. New protocols will be then injected as a software as certain events occur. For instance, new data compressors could be (re)programmed on-the-fly as the monitored signal type or its statistical properties change. We consider a lossy compression scenario, where the application tolerates some distortion of the gathered signal in return for improved energy efficiency. To reap the full benefits of this paradigm, we discuss an automatic sensor profiling approach where the signal class, and in particular the corresponding rate-distortion curve, is automatically assessed using machine learning tools (namely, support vector machines and neural networks). We show that this curve can be reliably estimated on-the-fly through the computation of a small number (from ten to twenty) of statistical features on time windows of a few hundreds samples

Z-linear Gale duality and poly weighted spaces (PWS)

The present paper is devoted to discussing Gale duality from the Z-linear algebraic point of view. This allows us to isolate the class of Q-factorial complete toric varieties whose class group is torsion free, here called poly weighted spaces (PWS), as an interesting generalization of weighted projective spaces (WPS).Comment: 29 pages: revised version to appear in Linear Algebra and Its Applications. Major changes: the paper has been largely rewritten following refree's comments. In particular, main geometric results have been anticipated giving rise to the motivational Section

A Q\mathbb{Q}--factorial complete toric variety with Picard number 2 is projective

This paper is devoted to settle two still open problems, connected with the existence of ample and nef divisors on a Q-factorial complete toric variety. The first problem is about the existence of ample divisors when the Picard number is 2: we give a positive answer to this question, by studying the secondary fan by means of Z-linear Gale duality. The second problem is about the minimum value of the Picard number allowing the vanishing of the Nef cone: we present a 3-dimensional example showing that this value cannot be greater then 3, which, under the previous result, is also the minimum value guaranteeing the existence of non-projective examples.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Minor changes following the referee's advise: list of notation suppressed, few typos fixed, references updated. Final version to appear in Advances in Geometr

A Q-factorial complete toric variety is a quotient of a poly weighted space

We prove that every Q-factorial complete toric variety is a finite quotient of a poly weighted space (PWS), as defined in our previous work arXiv:1501.05244. This generalizes the Batyrev-Cox and Conrads description of a Q-factorial complete toric variety of Picard number 1, as a finite quotient of a weighted projective space (WPS) \cite[Lemma~2.11]{BC} and \cite[Prop.~4.7]{Conrads}, to every possible Picard number, by replacing the covering WPS with a PWS. As a consequence we describe the bases of the subgroup of Cartier divisors inside the free group of Weil divisors and the bases of the Picard subgroup inside the class group, respectively, generalizing to every Q-factorial complete toric variety the description given in arXiv:1501.05244, Thm. 2.9, for a PWS.Comment: 25+9 pp. Post-final version of our paper published in Ann.Mat.Pur.Appl.(2017),196,325-347: after its publication we realized that Prop.~3.1 contains an error strongly influencing the rest of the paper. Here is a correct revision (first 25 pp.: this version will not be published) and the Erratum appearing soon in Ann. Mat. Pur. Appl. (last 9 pp.) correcting only those parts affected by the erro