Constructing the subsheaf. On an integral scheme, every nonempty open subset is an irreducible topological space and hence a connected space. A locally constant function from such an open subset to is constant. Thus the constant sheaf has sections on every nonempty open subset, and the structure sheaf embeds in it by restriction to the generic point. Empty members of the given open cover may be discarded.
For every open subset , define
This is a subsheaf of the sheaf of modules : its condition is local, and compatible sections glue in , with the regularity conditions gluing in . On , the hypothesis says that is a section of the sheaf of units of the structure sheaf. Therefore multiplication by it preserves , and
It follows that : the condition with index implies every other condition on an overlap, and the converse is part of the definition. Multiplication by is an isomorphism , with inverse multiplication by . Hence is an invertible sheaf, or equivalently a line bundle, and
These local descriptions also give uniqueness as a subsheaf of . This construction is the divisor line bundle for the local rational equations .
The tensor product. Refine the two open covers to . The ratios
are sections of the sheaf of units of the structure sheaf on the corresponding overlaps, so the products give a line bundle by the construction just proved. Multiplication in defines a sheaf morphism
On each it sends the local generator to the local generator . It is thus an isomorphism on an open cover, and hence an isomorphism globally. In particular,
The sign for projective twists. Write homogeneous coordinates on projective space , and let be its standard affine open cover. For any integer , take the nonzero elements of the function field
Their ratios are , which are sections of the sheaf of units of the structure sheaf on , including when . The twisting sheaf on projective space has local generator on . Divide a rational section of by to embed it in the constant sheaf of the function field; the local generator becomes . This identifies the constructed line bundle with and fixes the sign explicitly.
For , , with generator ; the displayed data gives all its powers, with by the product rule above. If , projective space is , its Picard group is zero, and the same formula gives only the trivial line bundle.
For a divisor on an algebraic curve , let and choose a basis of dimension . Regarding the basis as sections of the divisor line bundle, evaluation gives . If the linear system of divisors has no base points, at least one section is nonzero at each point, and these homogeneous coordinates define a morphism. If the effective divisor has a fixed part , first divide all sections by their common vanishing factor. The moving divisor is base-point-free, has the same section space, and gives the uniquely extended morphism on the smooth curve. Thus effectiveness alone does not make the raw evaluations everywhere nonzero, but cancellation supplies the usual map.
A morphism from a projective integral curve is a finite morphism onto its image precisely when it is nonconstant, equivalently : a positive-dimensional fiber of a curve would be the whole curve, while a nonconstant proper map with finite fibers is finite. It is an isomorphism onto its image precisely when its moving complete linear system is very ample. In section-space terms, putting , the criteria are
where is allowed. These express absence of base points, separation of distinct points, and separation of tangent directions. In the base-point-free convention .
Now suppose the genus is two. The Riemann-Roch theorem gives and . There cannot be a nonconstant function with only a single simple pole on a positive-genus smooth projective curve: it would give a degree-one map to , an isomorphism. Hence for every point . Applying Riemann-Roch theorem to gives , so the canonical linear system has no base point. The resulting map has degree .
Set , of degree four. The Riemann-Roch theorem gives and for every , since the residual divisors have negative degree. Thus is a base-point-free map to with nondegenerate image . Degree of the pullback of a general line gives
The image cannot be a line because the three sections are independent. The only alternatives are a birational quartic or a double cover of a conic. In the latter case identify the smooth conic with . Its hyperplane bundle has degree two, so , where is a degree-two divisor with . Again Riemann-Roch theorem implies . Since has degree zero, it must be linearly equivalent to zero; hence . This would force , contrary to the hypothesis. Therefore the image is a plane quartic and the map is birational. A smooth plane quartic has genus , while its normalization here has genus two. Consequently .
The canonical bundle is , the holomorphic line bundle of holomorphic top forms on a complex -manifold. For an embedded complex submanifold of dimension , the holomorphic normal bundle is the quotient
Taking determinants and duals gives adjunction for a smooth submanifold:
For a closed smooth hypersurface, is its divisor line bundle, equipped with a holomorphic section whose zero divisor is with multiplicity one. If locally defines , local meromorphic generators transform by the holomorphic units . The stated normal-bundle relation is
Equivalently the conormal is . The closed-divisor interpretation is needed to define ; an arbitrary nonclosed local submanifold does not define that global divisor bundle.
For a holomorphic subbundle , define on sections of , with acting on the bundle factor of a bundle-valued form. It obeys the Leibniz rule. Since is holomorphic, lies in , so . For , their inner products with the normal components of vanish; hence projecting preserves metric compatibility. The uniqueness proved for the Chern connection identifies
This is the projected Chern connection.
Choose the adapted smooth unitary frame and retain Question 2's input-index convention. The connection matrix is skew-Hermitian. Its upper-left block is for ; writing the lower-left block as forces the upper-right block to be :
Holomorphicity of makes the normal part of vanish, so has type , and has type . The matrix represents the second fundamental form of a holomorphic subbundle in this input-index convention. These types would appear in the opposite blocks with coefficient-column indices; they must not be swapped while retaining the printed minus-sign Cartan equation.
Take the upper-left block of the Cartan curvature equation with input indices. It is
Therefore the curvature formula for a holomorphic subbundle is
The sign and the order of the factors both follow from the displayed block multiplication.
Now let be a complex torus and a closed smooth hypersurface. The torus has a translation-invariant flat Kähler metric, and and are holomorphically trivial. Give its flat metric and apply the preceding formula to . Since ,
For a tangent vector , the latter coefficient is , so is a semipositive real form. Thus is a semipositive holomorphic line bundle. This proves the semipositive canonical bundle of a submanifold of a complex torus assertion directly from curvature. By adjunction for a smooth submanifold, .
Restrict a positive metric on to . The tensor-product metric on
has curvature , which is positive for every nonnegative integer . Hence
The integer condition is implicit in a tensor power. No assertion of strict positivity of is required.
For vanishing, write . The allowed Kodaira vanishing theorem says that on a compact Kähler manifold , for when is a positive holomorphic line bundle. Since is trivial, its application on the torus gives for .
For every , the divisor section gives the exact sequence
where . Crucially,
and is positive by the proved restriction statement. The induced Kähler metric makes compact Kähler, so Kodaira vanishing theorem on gives for all . In the long exact sequence in sheaf cohomology, the segment
then has zero outside terms by induction. Therefore
This proves vanishing for divisor twists on a complex torus using restriction positivity and the divisor exact sequence, rather than presuming ambient positivity of every divisor twist.
Take the hyperplane divisor . On its local equation is , a non-zero-divisor; on it is the unit one. Thus it is an effective Cartier divisor. On overlaps, is a unit.
The divisor line bundle is locally generated by . Map this generator to the local generator of the twisting sheaf on projective space . On overlaps both generators transform by , so the maps glue and give
For the hyperplane is empty and this is the zero Cartier divisor; the conclusion still holds.
Let be the function field of the integral scheme and choose a nonzero rational section of a line bundle . Choose an open trivializing cover with generators for the invertible sheaf . On each nonempty , write with . If on an overlap, then , so is a regular unit. Consequently the local rational functions define a Cartier divisor .
The divisor line bundle restricts to . Define its local isomorphism from by . On an overlap,
so the maps glue. Hence
The rational section maps to the rational function , which also fixes the sign convention for . Choosing a different nonzero rational section changes by a principal Cartier divisor, so its linear equivalence of Cartier divisors class is unchanged. No projectivity or Noetherian hypothesis is required.
Semiample divisor 2026-10-05
A Cartier divisor is semiample if some positive multiple is a basepoint-free divisor, equivalently its divisor line bundle has a globally generated positive power. Such a power defines a Kodaira map with . Semiampleness implies nefness but need not imply ampleness: a fibre divisor of a morphism to a curve is a basic example.
The tangent bundle of a complex torus is holomorphically trivial with a flat Hermitian metric. Apply the curvature formula for a holomorphic subbundle to : its determinant dual has semipositive curvature. For a closed smooth hypersurface, adjunction for a smooth submanifold identifies with the restriction of its divisor line bundle. Thus a positive ambient line bundle remains positive on the hypersurface after tensoring by any nonnegative power of the restricted divisor bundle.