Basepoint-free divisor Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A divisor is basepoint-free when its global sections have no common zero. Its complete linear system therefore defines a Kodaira map everywhere.
On , let be the negative section of a Hirzebruch surface, so , and let be the fiber class of a Hirzebruch surface, with and . The line bundle is very ample. Indeed, the toric ampleness criterion for is
and on a smooth complete toric variety every ample line bundle is very ample. These inequalities hold for .
Explicitly, after choosing the standard lattice coordinates for , its lattice polytope of a toric divisor is
The monomials indexed by the lattice points of this polygon separate torus orbits and tangent directions, so their Kodaira map is a closed embedding. This directly verifies that the resolved proper toric surface is projective.
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Take the invariant divisor , whose class is . Its global sections are represented in the Cox ring by and . They have no common zero on , so is basepoint-free. Its Kodaira map is
This is exactly the ruling , and its fibers have divisor class .
Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.