Divisor class groups of rational trinomial varieties (Q2333342)

This article deals with the explicit computation of divisor class groups of quasihomogeneous complex affine varieties that are complete intersections. In particular, the author focuses on varieties which are the common zero locus of trinomials. These varieties admit a torus action of complexity one and thus they are rational if and only if its divisor class group is finitely generated. In this context, the article includes an explicit description of finitely generated divisor class groups. Also, an explicit criteria is presented for the divisor class group of a trinomial variety to be free finitely generated, finite or cyclic and compare the new results with existing work in that direction. Additionally, the new results are used to compute the divisor class groups of a class of varieties that arises side by side with trinomial varieties as total coordinate spaces of rational varieties with torus action of complexity one.