Homogeneous coordinates on affine charts of toric projective space #
The maximal cone omitting the ray k has a complex-point chart homeomorphic to ℂ^n.
The coordinate indexed by j ≠ k is evaluation of the character of X_j / X_k.
Conversely every character monomial is the product of these coordinates with exponents given
by its pairings with the rays. This description holds on the whole affine chart, including
its coordinate hyperplanes, and for any finite semigroup generating family. The identification
is biholomorphic for the cone complex structure of any extending basis. Normalized homogeneous
coordinates adjoin the constant normalizing coordinate one; they determine the affine point.
These explicit affine coordinates are needed to compare the gluing of the projective-space fan with the usual homogeneous-coordinate construction of complex projective space.
The homeomorphisms specialize TauCeti.Toric.regularAffinePointHomeomorph using the explicit
homogeneous-coordinate splitting of the dual semigroup.
References #
- W. Fulton, Introduction to Toric Varieties, §1.4.
- D. Cox, J. Little and H. Schenck, Toric Varieties, §§3.1 and 3.4.
The complex-point chart omitting the ray k, in the homogeneous ratios X_j / X_k.
The topology may be defined using any finite generating family of its dual semigroup.
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Each affine coordinate evaluates the monomial of the corresponding homogeneous ratio.
The point with prescribed homogeneous ratios evaluates every character by the associated ordinary monomial. All exponents are nonnegative; coordinates may vanish.
Homogeneous coordinates of an affine point, normalized so that the coordinate of the omitted ray is one. The remaining coordinates can vanish.
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A normalized homogeneous coordinate evaluates the corresponding ratio character.
The homogeneous coordinate used to normalize an affine chart is one.
The affine coordinates are the homogeneous coordinates other than the normalizing one.
The normalized homogeneous coordinates determine an affine point.
Homogeneous ratios identify the maximal affine chart biholomorphically with complex affine space, for the regular-cone complex structure of any extending integral basis.
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The biholomorphic homogeneous-coordinate chart has the specified underlying homeomorphism.