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The Abel map of an algebraic curve sends an effective Cartier divisor $D$ to its line bundle ${\mathcal{O}}_C(D)$. Its scheme fibre over a line bundle $L$ is the projective space of one-dimensional subspaces of $H^0(C,L)$. This follows in families: a relative effective Cartier divisor in the fixed class determines a nowhere fibre-zero section of $L$ up to a line bundle from the parameter space, equivalently a line subbundle of $H^0(C,L)\otimes {\mathcal{O}}_T$. Thus the scheme fibre is smooth, not merely reduced on its points. The dimensions can nevertheless jump, so the Abel map of an algebraic curve need not be a smooth morphism.

Given a base point $p_0$, the Abel map takes points of a smooth projective curve to its degree-zero Picard group of a curve. For positive genus it is injective: equality at distinct $p,q$ would give a principal divisor with one simple zero and one simple pole, forcing a degree-one map to the projective line and genus zero. For genus one the Riemann-Roch theorem gives a unique effective degree-one representative of $L(p_0)$ for every degree-zero line bundle $L$, making the map bijective and inducing an abelian group law on the points.

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

A line bundle $L$ is ample when some positive tensor power $L^{\otimes m}$ is very ample.

On a projective scheme, a line bundle is ample exactly when its restriction to every reduced irreducible component is ample. The disjoint union of those components maps finitely and surjectively to the scheme, so finite-surjective descent of the finite pullback of an ample line bundle proves this. The same argument applies to restrictions to any closed subscheme. Thus nilpotent structure does not affect ampleness.

For a line bundle on an elliptic curve over a number field, the geometric cube identity remains exact as a line-bundle identity. The Weil height machine translates it into the displayed bounded-error identity for a chosen logarithmic height, uniformly on the rational triples. This distinction is essential: arbitrary naive heights do not obey an exact quadratic identity. Dividing the identity for $2^{n}P,2^{n}Q,2^{n}R$ by $4^n$ produces an exact identity for the canonical height of an elliptic curve.

An associated point of a coherent sheaf is a point whose corresponding prime is the annihilator of an element of the module on an affine chart. There are finitely many on a Noetherian scheme. A section of a line bundle avoiding them acts injectively on the sheaf, even when the scheme is nonreduced. Over an infinite field a sufficiently ample linear system supplies such a section.

A morphism between integral varieties is birational if it induces an isomorphism of their function fields, equivalently an isomorphism on suitable dense open subsets. A proper birational morphism to a normal variety satisfies $f_{\ast }{\mathcal{O}}_X={\mathcal{O}}_Y$. For point blowups of smooth surfaces this identifies sections of pulled-back line bundles by the projection formula for sheaves.

Every vector bundle on the projective line over a field splits as a direct sum of line bundles. Choose the largest integer $a$ with $H^0(E(-a))\ne 0$. A corresponding map $\mathcal{O}(a)\to E$ is saturated, since saturation otherwise increases its degree. Inductively split its quotient as ${⨁}_i\mathcal{O}(b_i)$. Twisting the exact sequence by $-a-1$ and using $H^1(\mathcal{O}(-1))=0$ gives $b_i\le a$. Hence all extension groups $H^1(\mathcal{O}(a-b_i))$ vanish, and the sequence splits. The multiset of degrees is determined by the dimensions of all twisted global-section spaces.

For a smooth $n$-dimensional variety $X$ over a field, its canonical line bundle is ${\omega }_X={\bigwedge }^n{\Omega }_{X/k}^1$. It is the bundle of top-degree algebraic differential forms. A nonzero rational section defines a canonical divisor of a smooth variety. This algebraic definition works in arbitrary characteristic and is distinct from restricting the analytic canonical-bundle definition to complex manifolds.

For a real or complex line bundle $L$, the evaluation isomorphism $L^{\ast }\otimes L\cong \mathrm{End}(L)$ identifies the identity endomorphisms with a nowhere-zero global section. Consequently $L^{\ast }\otimes L$ is trivial.

For a vector bundle $E$ of rank $r$ on a smooth algebraic variety, algebraic Chern classes have $c_0(E)=1$, vanish for $i>r$, commute with pullback, and obey the Whitney sum formula for Chern classes for every short exact sequence of vector bundles. A line bundle $\mathcal{O}(D)$ has total class $1+[D]$. The projective-bundle splitting construction makes pullback injective and supplies a filtration by line bundles, so these axioms determine all classes as elementary symmetric functions of their first classes. In particular, $c_i(E^{\ast })=(-1{)}^i{c}_i(E)$ and $c_1(L\otimes M)=c_1(L)+c_1(M)$ in the ordinary Chow ring.

If a line bundle on a smooth projective curve has both $h^0(\mathcal{L})>0$ and $h^0({\omega }_C\otimes {\mathcal{L}}^{-1})>0$, the displayed inequality holds. Write these dimensions as $r,s$. The product dimension bound for sections on a curve gives $r+s-1\le g$, and the Riemann-Roch theorem gives $r-s=\mathrm{deg}\mathcal{L}+1-g$. Adding gives $2r\le \mathrm{deg}\mathcal{L}+2$.

If a line bundle on $E^3$ is trivial on each zero-coordinate face, its First Chern class vanishes: the integral second cohomology consists of single-factor second cohomology and cross-products of first cohomology from pairs, and each summand is detected on a coordinate face. The holomorphic exponential sequence then puts the bundle in ${\mathrm{Pic}}^0(E^3)$. The decomposition of first cohomology, including Dolbeault cohomology, identifies this group with ${\mathrm{Pic}}^0(E{)}^3$. Triviality on the three coordinate axes makes all three factors trivial. Applying this cube principle to the alternating partial-sum pullbacks proves the usual addition-map Theorem of the Cube.

In a proper flat family of algebraic curves, if the first sheaf cohomology of a line bundle vanishes on every fibre of an open set, its direct image there is a vector bundle of rank given by the Riemann-Roch theorem and commutes with arbitrary base change. Locally a finite free complex computes both fibre sheaf cohomology groups. Vanishing of the last cokernel makes its last map surjective; splitting that map leaves a finite locally free kernel in degree zero. This is the mechanism behind charts of the Picard scheme of a curve and evaluation descriptions of the theta divisor.

This is the full linear system of divisors, obtained by using every global section of the associated line bundle. For a Cartier divisor on an integral projective variety, the complete linear system $|D|$ consists of its effective representatives under linear equivalence of Cartier divisors. A basis of $H^0(X,{\mathcal{O}}_X(D))$ defines a rational map to projective space.

In characteristic different from two, a local equation for a conic bundle is $z^{\mathsf{T}}Mz=0$ with $M$ symmetric. A fibre is singular exactly when the determinant vanishes. Changing the fibre coordinates multiplies that determinant by a nonzero square, so its zero locus is intrinsically defined even when the quadratic coefficients belong to twisting line bundles.

For a real or complex line bundle, its endomorphism bundle is canonically trivial by scalar multiplication. The Bianchi identity therefore reduces to $d{F}_A=0$. The difference of two connections on a vector bundle is a global endomorphism-valued one-form, which here is an ordinary scalar one-form $a$. Since scalar one-forms have vanishing wedge square, the curvature difference formula reduces to $F_{A+a}-F_A=da$. Thus the de Rham cohomology class is independent of the connection on a vector bundle.