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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 118 3 Solution by
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Choose holomorphic coordinates centered at . Locally, the blowup of a complex manifold at a point iswith ; away from this is an isomorphism, so it glues to . The exceptional divisor is .
The proper transform is the closure of . If , it is isomorphic to . If , the holomorphic implicit function theorem supplies coordinates in which . In the blowup chart with and for , every chart with describes the proper transform by , while the chart does not meet it. These are smooth coordinate hypersurfaces, so is smooth.
For a divisor , the line bundle associated to a divisor consists locally of meromorphic functions such that . Pulling back a local defining function for shows that its divisor iswhere is the order of vanishing at of a local defining function for . ThereforeBecause is smooth, when and when .
Applying the definition with gives directlyThe map sends a section to its local meromorphic coefficient relative to the canonical meromorphic section of ; the divisor inequality is exactly the condition that these coefficients define a holomorphic section, and the inverse construction is local multiplication by that canonical section.
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