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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 18 4 iv Solution by
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The line bundle translation stabilizer is the closed subgroupEach difference lies in , by the equality of Weil divisors just proved. Thus the subgroup they generate lies in , and closedness puts its Zariski topology closure there too. Therefore . The closure of a subgroup is again a subgroup: multiplication and inversion preserve its closure by continuity. In this setting it is connected as well, since is connected and contains zero, and the increasing finite sums of are connected with a common point. Its reduced closure is an abelian subvariety.
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