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Restriction of cycles from $X$ to $U$ is surjective: every integral subvariety of $U$ is the restriction of its closure in $X$. Its kernel on cycle groups consists exactly of cycles supported on $Z$, hence is the image of $Z_k(Z)\to Z_k(X)$.

This descends to the Chow group level. If a cycle $\alpha$ restricts to zero in $A_k(U)$, express its restriction as a sum of principal divisors on $(k+1)$-dimensional subvarieties of $U$. Taking their closures in $X$ and the same rational functions gives a rationally equivalent cycle whose difference from $\alpha$ is supported on $Z$. Thus $[\alpha ]$ lies in the image of $A_k(Z)$. Since principal divisors restrict to principal divisors, the other composite is zero. This proves the localization sequence for Chow groups

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At the generic point ${\eta }_V$ of $V$, the local ring $R={\mathcal{O}}_{W,{\eta }_V}$ is a one-dimensional Noetherian local domain. Write $r=a/b$ with nonzero $a,b\in R$ and define the order of vanishingThis is independent of the representation. The associated principal $k$-cycle iswhere only finitely many terms are nonzero.

The subgroup ${\mathrm{Rat}}_k(X)\subseteq Z_k(X)$ is generated by these cycles as $W$ ranges over integral $(k+1)$-dimensional subvarieties and $r$ over $R(W{)}^{\times }$. Two $k$-cycles are rationally equivalent when their difference lies in this subgroup, and the Chow group is

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