Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/iii/paper-152/3/e/solution

The assertion is false. The Picard group of the Hirzebruch surface is freely generated by the negative section and a fiber . Pullbacks from form only the subgroup . For example, cannot be a pullback: its restriction to a fiber has degree , whereas every pullback from the base restricts trivially to every fiber.

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