Class Groups of Localities of Rings of Invariants of Reductive Algebraic Groups.
Consider a rational representation of an algebraic torus on a vector space . Suppose that is a homogeneous minimal generating set for the ring of invariants, . New upper bounds are derived for the number . These bounds are expressed in terms of the volume of the convex hull of the weights of and other geometric data. Also an algorithm is described for constructing an (essentially unique) partial set of generators consisting of monomials and such that is integral over .