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We survey the construction of the Cox ring of an algebraic variety X and study the birational geometry of X when its Cox ring is finitely generated.
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Basic notation. Throughout this paper k is an algebraically closed field.
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Laface, A., Velasco, M. A survey on Cox rings. Geom Dedicata 139, 269–287 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-008-9329-y
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