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Past exam of the geometry course of the University of Oxford 2010 B 5 a Solution by
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The strong Bézout theorem says that if two projective plane algebraic curves over have degrees and no common irreducible component, their intersection is finite andEach intersection multiplicity is a positive integer. Scheme-theoretic multiplicities, rather than just distinct intersection points, are essential: tangencies and singularities can make individual terms larger than one.
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