Canonical divisor of the projective line

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Canonical divisor of the projective line by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
For the affine coordinate on , put at infinity. Since ,
so . More generally,
because consists of polynomials of degree at most when and only the zero function when .

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