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Unavoidable support at a non-Cartier point
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Unavoidable support at a non-Cartier point
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2026-10-07
If
a
Weil divisor
D
on
a
normal variety
is not Cartier at
x
, every linearly equivalent
divisor
has
x
in its
support of a Weil divisor
. Otherwise that representative would vanish near
x
, expressing
D
as
a
principal Weil divisor
there. On
V
(
a
c
−
b
2
)
the prime
divisor
V
(
a
,
b
)
is not Cartier at the origin: its
ideal
has two independent generators
modulo
the
maximal ideal
times
that
ideal
. This gives an unavoidable support point even for representatives with negative
coefficients
.
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