Stabilization of monomial maps

Journal article, 2011

A monomial (i.e. equivariant) selfmap of a toric variety is called stable if its action on the Picard group commutes with iteration. Generalizing work of Favre to higher dimensions, we show that under suitable conditions, a monomial map can be made stable by refining the underlying fan. In general, the resulting toric variety has quotient singularities; in dimension two we give criteria for when it can be chosen smooth, as well as examples when it cannot.