If is a Noetherian normal domain and is a multiplicative set, then is the quotient of by the classes of height-one primes meeting . Tracking the units of determines the relations among those prime divisors.
Let over a field . Its divisor class group is infinite cyclic. Inverting givesa unique factorization domain. The Nagata theorem for divisor class groups therefore generates by the two prime Weil divisors and above .
At either generic point, the defining equation makes a uniformizer times a unit, so . To prove that this is the only relation, a rational function with divisor supported on restricts to a unit of . Every such unit is with and . Its divisor is , givingThus either ruling plane generates, with the other representing its negative. Computing the localized unit group rules out an additional torsion relation.
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