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Past exam of the geometry course of the University of Oxford 2009 B 6 iv Solution by
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Every degree-three monomial evaluated at is with . Its possible pole orders at are at most , , , respectively, and hence at most three each. Therefore .
The vector space of homogeneous degree-three polynomials in three variables has dimension . The target Riemann-Roch space has dimension nine, because its divisor on an algebraic curve has degree nine and genus is one. Thus the evaluation linear maphas nontrivial kernel. Consequently
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