Affine monoids and their algebras are closely related to actions of algebraic tori.These form a special class of linear algebraic groups, to be introduced in the first section.We highlight Borel’s theorem on the conjugacy of maximal tori since it will be a crucial tool later on.
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Bruns, W., Gubeladze, J. (2009). Isomorphisms and automorphisms. In: Polytopes, Rings, and K-Theory. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b105283_5
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