Cox construction

The Cox construction presents a toric variety as a quotient of an open subset of affine space by a quasitorus determined by its divisor class group.

In the Cox ring $S=k[z_{\rho }]$, the irrelevant ideal is generated by ${\prod }_{\rho \notin \sigma (1)}{z}_{\rho }$ as $\sigma$ runs over maximal cones. The Cox construction takes the quotient of $\mathrm{Spec}S\setminus V(B_{\Sigma })$ by the diagonalizable group whose character group is the divisor class group.

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The Cox ring of a toric variety is the polynomial ring with one variable $x_{\rho }$ for each ray, graded by the divisor class group through $\mathrm{deg}{x}_{\rho }=[D_{\rho }]$.

A geometric quotient $X\to X/G$ has fibers equal to group orbits and carries precisely the invariant regular functions locally on the quotient.