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Past exam of the geometry course of the University of Oxford 2010 B 5 e Solution by
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The curves have no common component, since their intersection is finite. Let define the irreducible degree- curve . Choose outside , and select with . The polynomial is not identically zero, since are not proportional.
The degree- curve meets at the prescribed base points and also at . If did not divide , irreducibility of and the Bézout theorem would bound the number of distinct intersections by , contradicting these points. ThusAt every remaining common zero of lying off , is nonzero and hence . ThereforeThis is residual intersection through a curve pencil. The existence of a point outside the finite base locus is automatic on the projective curve .
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