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A Cartier divisor is ample when its associated line bundle is ample. The Nakai–Moishezon criterion and Kleiman's criterion characterize this condition numerically.

The ample cone consists of real numerical divisor classes represented by ample real divisors. It is an open convex cone, and Kleiman's criterion identifies it with the interior of the nef cone.

The sum of a nef real Cartier class and an ample real Cartier class on a projective scheme is ample. By Kleiman's criterion, the ample cone is the interior of the nef cone. If a ball about an ample class lies in that convex cone, translating it by a nef class still lies in the cone. The sum is consequently still an interior point.

Choose $0<ϵ\ll 1$ as in (c). Thenis the sum of a nef divisor and an ample real divisor. The nef-plus-ample ampleness lemma givesFor clarity, this last lemma follows from Kleiman's criterion and the convex cone property: if $x$ is an interior point of the nef cone and $y$ lies in that cone, translating a small neighbourhood of $x$ by $y$ stays in the cone. Thus $x+y$ remains in its interior, which is the ample cone on a projective scheme.

The complete argument proves the real Nakai–Moishezon criterion rather than assuming it: curve positivity gives nefness, rational approximation and a proved section-count inequality give bigness, induction and the finite-support argument give a uniform ample subtraction, and the nef-plus-ample lemma concludes ampleness. The zero-dimensional case is automatic, and ampleness on reduced components handles reducibility and nilpotents.

The Nakai–Moishezon criterion says that a Cartier divisor $D$ on a projective scheme is ample exactly whenfor every positive-dimensional integral closed subvariety $Y$. Kleiman's criterion says that the ample cone is the interior of the nef cone; equivalently, the numerical class of $D$ is ample exactly when it is strictly positive on every nonzero element of the closed cone of curves $\overline{\mathrm{NE}}(X)$. Positivity merely on individual curves is insufficient: the closure of the cone is essential. A nef divisor has nonnegative intersection number with every integral curve, and its restriction to every closed subscheme is nef.

Fix any ample divisor $A$. Choose $q\gg 0$ so that both $qA$ and $(q-1)A$ have nonzero global sections, and choose $F\in |qA|$. Condition (1) and the section subtraction lemma for big divisors yield an integer $j>0$ with $jD-qA\sim E_0\ge 0$. Adding an effective member of $|(q-1)A|$ gives $jD\sim A+E$. Thus (1) implies the stronger condition (2').

If $jD\sim A+E$ with $A$ ample and $E$ effective, multiplication by the section of $qE$ injects $H^0(X,qA)$ into $H^0(X,qjD)$. The positive leading coefficient of the ample Hilbert polynomial supplies condition (1) along the infinite sequence $m=qj$. Condition (2) implies (3). Conversely, if $jD\equiv A+E$, put $P=jD-E$. The Cartier divisor $P$ is numerically equivalent to $A$, hence ample by Kleiman's criterion; the actual equality $jD=P+E$ gives (2).

We have proved (1)$\Rightarrow$(2')$\Rightarrow$(2)$\Rightarrow$(1), and (3)$\Rightarrow$(2)$\Rightarrow$(3). Also (2') implies (3'), while (3') implies (3). Hence all five conditions are equivalent. They characterize a big divisor; the ample-plus-effective formulation is Kodaira's lemma. The inconsistent use of $n$ and $j$ in the printed multiplier is resolved by using $j$ throughout.

Suppose $D\equiv A^{\prime }+E^{\prime }$ as in (c), and set $P=D-E^{\prime }$. Its numerical class is ample, so $P$ is an ample real divisor. Fix an ample Cartier divisor $A$. The ample cone is open by Kleiman's criterion, so choose $\epsilon >0$ with $P-\epsilon A$ still ample. Express this ample real divisor as a positive real combination $\sum b_i{B}_i$ of ample Cartier divisors. Some positive multiple of each $B_i$ has an effective representative; dividing by that multiple gives $B_i{\sim }_{\mathbb{Q}}{G}_i$ with $G_i$ effective. Hencewhich is (b). The equivalence of numerical ampleness with a positive combination of ample Cartier representatives follows by rational approximation inside the open ample cone; the rational approximation of an ample-plus-effective real divisor proof also accounts for principal-divisor directions.

Finally, if $D^{\prime }\equiv D$, the same expression $D^{\prime }\equiv A^{\prime }+E^{\prime }$ satisfies (c). By the equivalences just proved, $D^{\prime }$ satisfies all three conditions exactly when $D$ does. Thus bigness is invariant under numerical equivalence, for real as well as Cartier divisors.