Well-formed weighted projective space

A weighted projective space with positive integer weights $q_0,\dots ,q_n$ is well-formed when the greatest common divisor of the weights with any one weight omitted is one. The quotient toric lattice $N={\mathbb{Z}}^{n+1}/\mathbb{Z}(q_0,\dots ,q_n)$ is free and the images of the coordinate vectors are primitive toric rays. Its fan contains the cones on all proper subsets of these rays.

The toric divisor class sequence identifies the divisor class group with $\mathbb{Z}$ via $(a_i)\mapsto \sum q_i{a}_i$. Choose integers $a_i$ with $\sum q_i{a}_i=1$; then $D=\sum a_i{F}_i$ represents its positive generator $H$. This is an ample Q-Cartier divisor: for $\ell =\mathrm{lcm}(q_i)$ the local Cartier data of $\ell D$ on the chart omitting ray $j$ is $m_j=(\ell /q_j)e_j-\ell (a_i)$, which satisfies the strict toric ampleness criterion. The generator need not itself be a Cartier divisor; for example the positive generator on $\mathbb{P}(1,1,2)$ has Cartier index two.

With $D=\sum a_i{F}_i$ and $\sum q_i{a}_i=1$, the dual toric lattice is $M=\{m\in {\mathbb{Z}}^{n+1}:\sum q_i{m}_i=0\}$. A torus character ${\chi }^m$ is a section of $rD$ exactly when $b_i=m_i+r{a}_i\ge 0$. The vector $b$ has weighted degree $\sum q_i{b}_i=r$, and the correspondence ${\chi }^m\mapsto X^b$ is bijective on bases in every degree and respects multiplication. This gives the displayed graded-ring isomorphism, even when $D$ is a non-Cartier Weil divisor.