 Divisor class and Picard groups of a weighted projective plane (source code)

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= Divisor class and Picard groups of a weighted projective plane

For coprime positive integers $a,b$,
$$
\operatorname{Cl}(\mathbb P(1,a,b))\cong\mathbb Z,
\qquad
\operatorname{Pic}(\mathbb P(1,a,b))\cong\mathbb Z,
$$
and the natural map identifies the Picard group with $ab\mathbb Z$ inside the class group. The plane is smooth exactly when $a=b=1$.

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