Canonical bundle formula for a point blowup Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
For the blowup of a complex manifold at a point in complex dimension , the differential gives a section of whose divisor on a complex manifold is . Indeed, a local chart has and for , so its Jacobian determinant is . The holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor then gives the formula for the canonical bundle.
Divisor sheaf on a complex manifold 2026-10-03
The quotient sheaf records the zero and pole orders of local nonzero meromorphic functions. Each of its global sections is naturally a divisor on a complex manifold on .
Divisor-to-Picard map 2026-10-03
The connecting homomorphism ofsends a divisor on a complex manifold to its holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor in the Picard group. Its kernel consists exactly of the principal divisors of global nonzero meromorphic functions.
Holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-14
If are local meromorphic equations for a divisor on a complex manifold , glue holomorphic frames byThe resulting holomorphic line bundle is denoted . The expressions glue to its canonical meromorphic section, whose divisor is .
Meromorphic section of a holomorphic line bundle Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
In a holomorphic local frame, a meromorphic section has a meromorphic scalar coefficient; the coefficients transform by the bundle's transition functions of a vector bundle. A nonzero meromorphic section has a divisor on a complex manifold recording its zero and pole orders.
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A divisor on a complex manifold, specialized to a compact Riemann surface, is a finite sum with integer coefficients, and . Two divisors are linearly equivalent when for a nonzero meromorphic function , whose principal divisor on a complex manifold records zero orders minus pole orders. DefineMultiplication by gives an isomorphism , because . Its inverse is multiplication by , proving .
On the Riemann sphere move to infinity by a Möbius coordinate. Meromorphic functions on the sphere are rational; those with no finite poles and a pole of order at most one at infinity are exactly . Thus , without using Riemann–Roch.
The Riemann-Roch theorem for a compact connected genus- surface is , where is a canonical divisor. Choose . Since the second dimension is nonnegative, . Constants span only one dimension, so a nonconstant exists whose only possible pole is at with order at most . The degree of its holomorphic map to the sphere is the total pole order. Therefore
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An irreducible analytic subvariety of a complex manifold is a closed subset locally defined by finitely many holomorphic functions which cannot be expressed as the union of two proper closed analytic subsets. In a complex -manifold, codimension means pure complex dimension . A divisor on a complex manifold is a locally finite formal integer combinationof irreducible analytic hypersurfaces. Compactness makes the set of components in this sum finite. Negative coefficients are permitted; a local equation for such a divisor on a complex manifold is generally meromorphic rather than holomorphic.
We use these precise local facts. In holomorphic coordinates at , the local ring is , a Noetherian regular local ring and a unique factorization domain. Each analytic hypersurface germ has finitely many irreducible local branches; their prime ideals have height one and are generated by irreducible holomorphic germs. A holomorphic germ is a unit exactly when its value at is nonzero. Consequently a nonzero meromorphic germ with order zero on every local hypersurface branch is a holomorphic unit, by cancelling its irreducible factors in numerator and denominator. These are the auxiliary local-ring properties required below.
After shrinking a neighbourhood around each point, choose local branch equations , and putIts zero and pole orders give exactly the local divisor on a complex manifold . A globally irreducible hypersurface may have several branches locally; all of them must be included with the indicated multiplicity. On an overlap, has zero order along every branch, so the local-ring facts show that it extends to a nowhere-zero holomorphic function. These germwise extensions patch uniquely to a holomorphic unit on the overlap. This describes a local defining function of and proves why multiplicities, not just zero sets, matter.
Set and glue line-bundle frames by . The identities give a holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor, denoted . Equivalently, the frame can be represented by in the sheaf of meromorphic functions, so . If alternative equations are , where are holomorphic units, the corresponding frames are identified by . This respects the changed transitions. Refining the cover gives the same identifications, proving that is well-defined up to holomorphic bundle isomorphism. The expressions glue to its canonical meromorphic section, whose divisor is .
For two divisors on a complex manifold use a common cover with equations and . Their sum has equation , and the tensor product of vector bundles has frame transitionsSending the sum-divisor frame to the tensor product of the two frames givesThis also yields .
For a nonsingular complex analytic hypersurface , choose reduced local equations with nonzero along . The holomorphic conormal bundle iswhose fibre is the annihilator of . It has local frame . Here this restriction is as a covector in the ambient cotangent bundle along , not its pullback to , where it would vanish. The line bundle has local frame , and if , thensince vanishes along . The frame identifications therefore patch and are fibrewise nonzero. This proves the conormal line of a smooth analytic hypersurface formulaEquivalently it identifies with the analytic conormal sheaf.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 22 3 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
On a complex manifold, a divisor on a complex manifold is a locally finite formal sum , where ranges over irreducible complex analytic hypersurfaces and . The local algebra needed here is that the local ring , identified in coordinates with convergent power-series germs, is a regular local ring and a unique factorization domain. In particular, each height-one prime is generated by one irreducible germ, and a nonzero meromorphic germ is a quotient of holomorphic germs. Reduced local equations of the same hypersurface differ by a holomorphic unit. These facts include local branches when a globally irreducible hypersurface has several branches at a singular point.
The order of a meromorphic function along a hypersurface is the exponent of its reduced local equation in the quotient's factorization. Equivalently, at a generic smooth point of , write , with a transverse local equation of and a holomorphic unit; then . Changing a reduced equation multiplies it by a unit and leaves unchanged. These local orders agree on overlaps and are constant along the generic smooth locus of an irreducible hypersurface. A nonzero global meromorphic function therefore defines its principal divisor on a complex manifoldPositive coefficients record zeros and negative coefficients record poles.
A local defining function for on is a nonzero meromorphic function whose orders there equal the coefficients of . It can be constructed as the product of local reduced hypersurface equations to the prescribed integer powers. On an overlap, has no zero or pole along any hypersurface. The unique factorization domain property then makes it a nowhere-zero holomorphic function, after choosing representatives of the germs. The holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor is obtained by gluing holomorphic frames usingThese ratios satisfy the cocycle condition, and the expressions agree on overlaps. They form the canonical meromorphic section of a holomorphic line bundle with divisor .
If globally, is a holomorphic unit on , and is a global nowhere-zero holomorphic section. Hence is holomorphically trivial. Conversely, if has a nowhere-zero global holomorphic frame , write with holomorphic units. The coefficients of the canonical meromorphic section of a holomorphic line bundle agree on overlaps and give a nonzero global meromorphic function . Since multiplication by a unit does not change orders, . Therefore
For a smooth hypersurface , the adjunction formula isIndeed, the holomorphic conormal sequence has first term ; taking its determinant yields , which gives the formula. Here the canonical bundle is the top exterior power of the holomorphic cotangent bundle.
Apply this first to . Its degree- equation is a section of , so . Since , we obtain . The restricted second equation cuts out in and has associated bundle . A second application of adjunction formula gives the canonical bundle of a regular projective complete intersection
It remains to prove that a nonzero exponent cannot yield a trivial holomorphic line bundle on . Choose a connected component and a hyperplane meeting but not containing it. Such a hyperplane exists: a positive-dimensional compact projective submanifold cannot lie entirely in an affine chart, since all its affine coordinate functions would be global holomorphic functions and hence constant. A hyperplane through one point and not another consequently meets properly. Its equation gives a holomorphic section of that has both a zero and a nonzero value. For , the th power has the same two properties. Were trivial, this section would be represented by a global holomorphic function, contradicting its constancy on compact connected . For , triviality would imply triviality of its positive dual power. This proves nontrivial hyperplane powers on a compact projective submanifold and henceThe degrees are positive because the two equations define a hypersurface and a surface of the specified dimensions.
The calculation uses “non-singular” in the usual smooth complete-intersection sense: the equations define reduced smooth divisors, with independent differentials along . If only their reduced zero sets are required to be smooth, polynomial multiplicities cannot determine the canonical bundle. For example, and have the same smooth quartic surface in the hyperplane for every . That surface has trivial canonical bundle, while the displayed polynomial degree sum is . Thus unreduced equations must not be substituted into the adjunction formula for the reduced surface.
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An irreducible complex analytic hypersurface is a closed analytic subset of pure complex codimension one which cannot be expressed as the union of two proper closed analytic subsets. Here a local defining function of a complex analytic hypersurface means a reduced local equation: a holomorphic germ generating its vanishing ideal, with each local branch occurring once. The word reduced matters. Merely prescribing the zero set would allow both and , and the requested uniqueness would then be false.
The local facts used are these: in holomorphic coordinates the local ring is , a regular local ring and a unique factorization domain; its units are exactly the germs nonzero at ; and the analytic Nullstellensatz identifies the zero-set ideal of a germ with . A reduced germ is a product of distinct irreducible factors. Unique factorization makes its principal ideal radical: if , every irreducible factor of divides , so . Thus two reduced germs with the same hypersurface germ have . Write , . The local ring is a domain, so . Hence is a holomorphic unit and . This proves reduced local defining functions differ by a holomorphic unit. Global irreducibility does not imply local irreducibility at a singular point; the same argument uses the product of all local branches and therefore covers that case too.
A divisor on a complex manifold is a locally finite integer combination of irreducible analytic hypersurfaces. On a compact manifold only finitely many have nonzero coefficients. Choose local meromorphic equations for a divisor , by products of powers of reduced local equations. Their ratios are holomorphic units on overlaps. For the holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor, choose frames satisfyingThe ratios obey the cocycle identity and so define a holomorphic line bundle . This convention makes the local meromorphic sections agree, with divisor . Changing the equations by units changes frames and gives an isomorphic bundle.
For hyperplanes in Complex projective space, choose nonzero linear equations . The degree-zero quotient is a global meromorphic function and has divisor . A principal divisor on a complex manifold gives a trivial associated bundle: using the same global meromorphic equation on every chart makes all frame transitions equal to one. The allowed tensor-product rule now givesIf the hyperplanes coincide the same conclusion is immediate. Equivalently, their common bundle is the hyperplane bundle .
Locally at the centre of a blowup of a complex manifold at a point, replace a coordinate neighbourhood in byAway from zero the direction is uniquely , so this map is an isomorphism there; glue it to . In the chart , write and for . These are smooth holomorphic coordinates on the blowup. The exceptional divisor is , globally .
The canonical bundle formula for a point blowup isThe local chart also explains the exponent: pulling back a coordinate volume form gives , so the Jacobian section has divisor .
Since is smooth at the centre, choose coordinates with . Its strict transform is a genuine analytic hypersurface. In a blowup chart , it is the closed set : off , the original equation reduces to , and taking the closure restores the points with . In chart , there are no such off-exceptional points, and the strict transform is empty there. These descriptions agree on overlaps and show analyticity, with . The total transform has the extra factor exactly once, soUnder the given anticanonical assumption, this yieldsTo prove the only-if direction, one must rule out an accidental trivial power of . The local blowup is the tautological line bundle over , with its zero section. Its normal bundle is therefore . The normal bundle of a smooth analytic hypersurface identifies with this bundle. If , restrict to a projective line inside ; the restriction of has degree . A trivial line bundle has degree zero, so it is trivial only if . Conversely the displayed tensor factor is literally trivial when . This is the anticanonical strict transform under a point blowup criterion:For completeness, dimension one cannot satisfy the premise in this compact setting: an irreducible analytic hypersurface is one point, and has degree on its curve component, whereas has degree . Thus no exceptional dimension-one case invalidates the equivalence.
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The divisor determines the bundle through its local equations. Choose an open cover on which has a reduced holomorphic defining equation , using on sets disjoint from . Because is a complex submanifold of codimension of a submanifold one, its ideal is locally generated by a coordinate; consequently is a nowhere-zero holomorphic function on each overlap. Inside the sheaf of meromorphic functions on a complex manifold, consider the locally free sheaf of rank oneThese local descriptions agree on overlaps. With , its transition functions of a vector bundle are specified byThe ratios satisfy the Čech cocycle condition, and the associated holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor is . The section is holomorphic and vanishes to order one along . Replacing by , with a holomorphic unit, replaces the frame by without changing the subsheaf of meromorphic functions. Refining the cover changes no local sections either. This proves choice independence up to isomorphism rather than merely producing a bundle for one cover.
For a complex manifold of dimension , the canonical bundle isIt is the holomorphic line bundle of holomorphic top-degree differential forms. To compute it on Complex projective space, let be the complex tautological line bundle, so that is the hyperplane line bundle. At a line , the tangent space is . Tensoring the tautological quotient sequence by gives the Euler sequence on complex projective spaceTaking the top exterior power gives ; taking its dual bundle yieldsHere a negative tensor power means the corresponding positive tensor power of the dual bundle.
The proposed sections over form a sheaf: compatible maps into glue uniquely, and their projections remain . Addition and multiplication by holomorphic functions are defined in the fibres of , making this a sheaf of -modules. If is a holomorphic local frame of on , every section over has the unique expressionThus the sheaf is a locally free sheaf of rank one. Its transition functions of a vector bundle are those of composed with , so the corresponding pullback vector bundle is precisely . This proves invertibility locally and compatibility globally.
For the local blowup of a complex manifold at a point, work on the projective chart and writeAll the incidence equations reduce to . Therefore gives a holomorphic coordinate chart isomorphic to . On an overlap with ,which is a biholomorphism where . The incidence subset is closed in the product of two Hausdorff spaces and is covered by these charts; hence it is a complex manifold of dimension . In each chart the exceptional fibre is , so it is a smooth complex submanifold, with its induced projective coordinates givingAway from the origin the inverse of the projection is , which is holomorphic; the projection is therefore a biholomorphism outside .
To find the canonical bundle, pull back the nowhere-zero top form on . In the chart above, its Jacobian determinant givesThe sign depends only on the ordering of the coordinates. This is a section of with divisor on a complex manifold exactly : it has that vanishing order in every exceptional chart and no zeros elsewhere. A nonzero meromorphic section of a holomorphic line bundle with divisor identifies its holomorphic line bundle with , by sending the local generator of to the nowhere-zero frame obtained by dividing the section by . ConsequentlyThis also includes , when the local map is an isomorphism and the exponent is zero.
For a general complex manifold, choose a coordinate neighbourhood of , with sent to , and replace by the inverse image of this coordinate neighbourhood in the local blowup of a complex manifold at a point. Glue this space to along using the preceding biholomorphism. The resulting charts give a complex manifold and a holomorphic map ; the exceptional fibre is and the map is a biholomorphism off that fibre. For completeness, the local projection is proper because its inverse image over a compact subset is closed in that subset times compact Complex projective space. This ensures the gluing is Hausdorff: separate points with distinct images downstairs, and points over inside the local blowup. The atlas is second countable as well.
The top exterior power of the differential defines a global holomorphic bundle map . Equivalently, it is a section of . The same local Jacobian determinant has vanishing order on , and the differential is invertible elsewhere. Applying the holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor construction gives the canonical bundle formula for a point blowup
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 118 3 a Solution 2026-10-03
Let be the sheaf of nonzero meromorphic functions. A local equation for a divisor on a complex manifold is determined modulo a nowhere-zero holomorphic factor and hence defines a section of the divisor sheaf on a complex manifold . Conversely, local representatives of such a section have quotients in , so their zero and pole orders agree on overlaps and define a divisor. The constructions are inverse:
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Write as in part (d). Each very ample line bundle is the pullback of under a projective embedding. A hyperplane section therefore supplies an effective divisor on a complex manifold with . HenceEvery Picard group class is therefore in the image of the divisor-to-Picard map:
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An irreducible complex analytic hypersurface in a complex manifold is a closed irreducible analytic subset of pure complex codimension one. A local defining function of a complex analytic hypersurface at is a holomorphic function on a neighbourhood such thatThe necessary local algebra is that the stalk is a regular local ring, hence a unique factorization domain, and that the local branches of a hypersurface germ determine finitely many height-one prime ideals. Each is principal; the product of their generators gives , and removing repeated factors makes it reduced. This also covers a globally irreducible hypersurface that has several local branches at a singular point.
A divisor on a complex manifold is a locally finite formal sum of irreducible analytic hypersurfaces with integer coefficients. On a sufficiently small , local defining functions give a meromorphic equation for . The quotients are nowhere-zero holomorphic functions. Gluing frames byproduces the holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor , and gives its canonical meromorphic section with divisor .
The Euler sequence on complex projective spaceimplies . Taking the dual determinant yields the canonical bundle of complex projective spacewhere is a hyperplane divisor.
The hypotheses on the homogeneous polynomial say thatis a smooth projective hypersurface of degree , so its divisor line bundle is . The adjunction formula givesThis is the canonical bundle of a smooth projective hypersurface.
Now fix an isomorphism and regard and as holomorphic sections of the same holomorphic line bundle. They have no common zero because . Their homogeneous coordinates therefore define a well-defined holomorphic mapIn a local frame, the quotientis a meromorphic function with divisor . Thus and , both with multiplicity one. The degree of a holomorphic map is therefore one. A nonconstant degree-one holomorphic map between compact connected Riemann surfaces is a biholomorphism, so the displayed map is biholomorphic.
Principal divisor on a complex manifold 2026-10-14
The divisor on a complex manifold of a nonzero global meromorphic function records its zero and pole orders along irreducible analytic hypersurfaces. It is called principal. Its holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor is trivial: choosing the same global meromorphic function as the local equation on every open set gives identity transition functions. In particular, two hyperplanes in Complex projective space have isomorphic associated bundles, since the quotient of their homogeneous linear equations is a global meromorphic function with their difference as divisor.