Toric varieties, monoid schemes and $cdh$ descent

Abstract

We give conditions for the Mayer-Vietoris property to hold for the algebraic K-theory of blow-up squares of toric varieties in any characteristic, using the theory of monoid schemes. These conditions are used to relate algebraic K-theory to topological cyclic homology in characteristic p. To achieve our goals, we develop for monoid schemes many notions from classical algebraic geometry, such as separated and proper maps.Comment: v2 changes: field of positive characteristic replaced by regular ring containing such a field at appropriate places. Minor changes in expositio