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Canonical divisor of the projective line (KP1​)

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Area of mathematics Geometry and topology Algebraic geometry Divisor on an algebraic curve Riemann-Roch theorem Canonical divisor
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For the affine coordinate t on P1, put s=t−1 at infinity. Since dt=−s−2ds,
(dt)=−2∞,
(1)
so KP1​∼−2∞. More generally,
ℓ(d∞)=max(d+1,0),
(2)
because L(d∞) consists of polynomials of degree at most d when d≥0 and only the zero function when d<0.

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