Mori dream stacks (Q2516492)

Mori dream spaces are projective varieties which are particularly well behaved from the point of view of the minimal model program. In particular they have finitely generated class groups \(\mathrm{Cl}(X)\) and finitely generated Cox rings \(\mathcal R (X):=\bigoplus _{L\in \mathrm{Cl}(X)}H^0(X,L)\). They were introduced by \textit{Y. Hu} and \textit{S. Keel} [Mich. Math. J. 48, 331--348 (2000; Zbl 1077.14554)] who characterized Mori dream spaces as those projective varieties which can be written as a GIT quotient of the spectrum of its Cox ring. In this paper the authors study a generalization of Mori dream spaces to stacks. It is not the case that Mori dream stacks are always given as a quotient of the spectrum of the Cox ring, however the authors provide a criterion when this is true and they characterize smooth toric Deligne-Mumford stacks in terms of the Cox ring.