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How should we think about the algebraic moment map?

My question is about the "algebraic moment map", as discussed by Frank Sottile in the final section of this paper, or by Bill Fulton in his Introduction to Toric Varieties, where he referes ...
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On two different descriptions of Delzant polytopes

I have seen two different ways of describing a Delzant polytope: From Canna Da Silva https://people.math.ethz.ch/~acannas/Papers/toric.pdf, a Delzant polytope is a polytope in $\mathbb{R}^{n*}$ ...
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Lines on a toric cubic surface with a line of nodes

Consider a cubic surface cut out by equations $x^2y - z^2w$ inside $\mathbb{P}^3$. This gives a cubic surface with a line of nodes, it is toric and has normalisation $\mathbb{F}_1$, a Hirzebruch ...
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