TORIC VARIETIES
TORIC VARIETIES
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10.1007/0-387-27103-1_10
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2010
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Just as standard N-graded polynomial rings give rise to projective geometry, multigraded polynomial rings give rise to toric geometry. The purpose of this chapter is to make sense of this statement. We begin by explaining how the geometry and representation theory of abelian group actions on vector spaces gives rise to multigradings on polynomial rings and how the affine quotients by such actions are reflected algebraically. Then we treat the projective case, which considers an additional grading by Z. The main point comes next: a toric variety is characterized by the data of a multigraded polynomial ring and a squarefree monomial ideal that is in a precise sense compatible with the multigrading. Through the geometry of invariant theory, we relate this homogeneous coordinate ring perspective to the more classical constructions of toric varieties from fans and polytopes. For simplicity, we work here over the field k= C of complex numbers.