Picard group of a smooth affine quadric surface

ID: picard-group-of-a-smooth-affine-quadric-surface

Over an algebraically closed field, remove a smooth hyperplane conic from a smooth quadric surface . The rulings of a smooth quadric surface generate , and has class . Picard-group localization on a smooth variety gives the quotient by . The restricted ruling bundle is a generator, exhibiting a nontrivial line bundle on an affine surface.

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