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ample toric divisors

Let $X$ be a smooth complex projective variety (of dimension two or higher) and $D=\bigcup D_i$ be a simple normal crossings divisor on $X$ such that:

  • $D$ is ample (maybe we need very ample but I am not sure)
  • $D$ is toric in the sense that each $D_i$ is toric, and the intersections $D_{i_1}\cap \ldots \cap D_{i_k}$ are toric faces of $D_{i_1},\ldots,D_{i_k}$
  • $(D-D_i)\cap D_i =\partial D_i$ (i.e., every codimension one face of $D_i$ belongs to some $D_i\cap D_j$).

Is it true/false that $(X,D)$ is log Calabi-Yau?

Note that, by the 3rd assumption and adjunction $(K_X+D)|_{D}$ is trivial. So I feel Lefschetz Theorem (together with assumption one) should imply that $(X,D)$ is log Calabi-Yau!

As a non-toric example, let $X$ be a cubic surface and $D$ be a triangle of lines (there are 45 of them on a generic cubic surface). Then $D$ is a hyperplane section of $X\subset \mathbb{P}^3$ and thus $(X,D)$ is log CY.