{ "id": "1109.6368", "version": "v2", "published": "2011-09-28T23:27:43.000Z", "updated": "2012-02-17T04:09:07.000Z", "title": "Singularities of Cox Rings of Fano Varieties", "authors": [ "Morgan V. Brown" ], "comment": "15 pages, 2 tikz figures. Added log Fano and log Calabi-Yau cases, and included an example of a non Cohen-Macaulay Cox ring due to Yoshinori Gongyo", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "Let $X$ be a smooth complete Fano variety over $\\mathbb{C}$. We show that the Cox ring $\\bigoplus_{L\\in\\text{Pic}(X)}H^0(X,\\mathcal{O}_X(L))$ is Gorenstein with canonical singularities.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-02-17T04:09:07.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14C20", "14J45" ], "keywords": [ "cox ring", "smooth complete fano variety", "gorenstein", "canonical singularities" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 15, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1109.6368B" } } }