Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 17 2 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
First suppose has full dimension in . Form the toric cone over it in and the graded semigroup algebrawhere degree zero contains only . The lattice semigroup is finitely generated by the Gordan lemma. The projective toric variety of a lattice polytope is . Using all lattice points in all dilates avoids any assumption that the degree-one lattice points generate the ring.
For each vertex of , the degree-zero part after inverting isIndeed its exponents are with . Conversely, every lattice point of the tangent toric cone has this form for sufficiently large integral . These charts cover the Proj construction: each point of a dilate is a rational convex combination of vertices, so some power of its monomial is a product of vertex monomials. Their dual cones are the vertex toric cones of the inward normal fan of a polytope. The normal toric fan is complete because every linear functional on attains its minimum on a convex face. This describes as a complete toric variety. Translating by gives the graded isomorphism , so containing the origin is unnecessary. If is not full-dimensional, translate a lattice vertex to zero and use ; the construction is then complete of dimension .
For the simplex in question put . Its inequalities are and , so its inward normal toric rays are and . Here the in the dual space denote the standard dual basis. Apply the real linear map . It carries these toric rays and their convex face incidences to the standard simplex fan, with toric rays . The transported lattice isWith , the primitive vectors of this toric fan in are and . The latter is primitive because requires each to be integral, whose smallest positive solution is . Their unique primitive relation isThus mutual coprimality beyond the displayed common gcd condition is not needed.
For a general complete toric variety, introduce one variable for each toric ray. Its toric homogeneous coordinate ring, or Cox ring, isThe toric divisor class sequence is , where the first map is . Thus the graded piece has basis the monomials with and . For an invariant divisor , monomials in degree correspond to algebraic torus characters through . This also identifies that graded piece with the global sections of .
In our example , and its map to sends to . The quotient is therefore , via . In particular and , giving the explicit graded isomorphismThe target has the grading inherited from ordinary total degree in . Its displayed generators are algebraically independent, which proves injectivity as well as surjectivity onto that subring.
To obtain the quotient, the toric irrelevant ideal is generated by . Here each maximal toric cone omits exactly one toric ray, so it is , and the open set is . The diagonalizable algebraic group with algebraic torus character group is . Its action on the Cox coordinates is dictated by their degrees, namelyHere the name the independent Cox coordinates; the graded-subring realization above does not change their weights. More concretely, the quotient chart where has coordinate ring , the invariant ring for this action. These charts glue to and to the specified toric fan charts. Positive weights make each orbit closed inside the punctured affine space, and in characteristic zero the finite stabilizers cause no failure of this geometric quotient. This is the weighted projective space construction.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 113 3 i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
The degree-one generation condition for Proj ensures that the opens for cover . Put and . Multiplication by is an -linear bijection for every integer , because is an invertible degree-one element. The convention therefore identifies on this chart with the free rank-one -module , generated by . Hence every twisting sheaf is invertible, including negative twists.
For the tensor product of sheaves, consider the natural mapIt is an isomorphism by degree-one localization of a graded module. Explicitly, a homogeneous tensor of total degree zero is represented on the left by . Multiplying a tensor factor by a homogeneous element of gives the same result after using the tensor relation, since that element is a degree-zero coefficient times a power of . This defines the inverse. Since localization commutes with tensor products, the target is . These natural chart maps agree on overlaps, soThe degree-one hypothesis matters: on general Proj constructions, twisting sheaves need not be line bundles. The local trivializations are also recorded in Stacks Project, Section 27.10.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 113 1 b Solution Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-03
The even-degree subring is the second Veronese subringwhere have degree one in the regraded ring. The canonical invariance of the Proj construction under passage to a Veronese subring givesOn homogeneous points this is the degree-two Veronese embeddingIt is an isomorphism onto the closed subschemeThus the quotient homomorphism supplies the requested closed immersion of into the projective plane.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 113 2 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The Proj construction has underlying setIts closed sets are for homogeneous ideals , and its standard opens are . The structure sheaf is characterized byfor homogeneous of positive degree.
For a lattice polytope , form the semigroup of lattice points with and , using only in degree zero. Its semigroup algebra is graded by , and its Proj construction gives . The chart at a lattice vertex is ; these charts give the normal fan of a polytope construction. For a polytope of smaller dimension, use its intrinsic affine lattice after translation.
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Sheaf associated with a graded module 2026-10-06
A graded module over a graded ring determines a quasi-coherent sheaf on the Proj construction by taking the degree-zero part of its localization on each standard affine open of Proj. Localization identifies these module sheaves on overlaps. The construction is exact, by exactness of localization and exactness of taking a fixed graded component.