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The Homogeneous Coordinate Ring of a Toric Variety Revised June 21, 1993 David A. Cox Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Amherst College Amherst, MA 01002 This paper will introduce the homogeneous coordinate ring S of a toric variety X . The 3 9 ring S is a polynomial ring with one variable for each one-dimensional cone in the fan ∆ 9 determining X , and S has a natural grading determined by the monoid of effective divisor 1 n classes in the Chow group An−1 (X ) of X (where n = dim X ). Using this graded ring, we u will show that X behaves like projective space in many ways. The paper is organized into J four sections as follows. 1 2 In §1, we define the homogeneous coordinate ring S of X and compute its graded 2 pieces in terms of global sections of certain coherent sheaves on X . We also define a v monomial ideal B ⊂ S that describes the combinatorial structure of the fan ∆. In the case 8 0 of projective space, the ring S is just the usual homogeneous coordinate ring C[x , . . ., x ], 0 n 0 and the ideal B is the “irrelevant” ideal x , . . ., x . 0 0 n 1 n n+1 ∗ 2 Projective space P can be constructed as the quotient (C −{0})/C . In §2, we will 9 see that there is a similar construction for any toric variety X . In this case, the algebraic /