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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.

For a projective scheme, a divisor class is in the ample cone exactly when it is strictly positive on every nonzero element of the closed cone of curves. Equivalently, the ample cone is the interior of the nef cone. The projectivity assumption matters: the same characterization is not asserted here for arbitrary proper schemes.

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.