Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 152 2 b iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Letand let be the star subdivision of through the ray . Its maximal cones areSince , their images lie respectively inThus is a morphism of fans from to .
The toric blowup at a torus-fixed point identifiesMore explicitly, the blowup of affine space at the origin is the total space of . The induced toric morphismis its bundle projection: it sends a nonzero vector to its direction and restricts to the identity on the exceptional divisor . Therefore resolves the indeterminacy locus of .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 152 2 b ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The images of the three rays of areNo cone of the complete fan of contains all three rays, so is not contained in one target cone. Thus is not a morphism of fans and does not define a regular toric morphism on all of .
On the dense algebraic torus, the pullbacks of the two standard target characters areUnder the standard torus chart , the resulting rational map of toric varieties from a lattice homomorphism isIts homogeneous coordinates vanish simultaneously exactly at the origin. Hence its indeterminacy locus is .