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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.

Throughout, the braces denote a multiset, so repeated splitting degrees retain their multiplicities. If the multisets agree after a common shift, permuting summands gives $E_a\cong E_b\otimes \mathcal{O}(c)$. Tensoring all the fibres of a vector bundle by the same line bundle leaves their one-dimensional quotient spaces unchanged. HenceThis proves one implication in the isomorphism classification of abstract rational scrolls.

For the converse first take $n\ge 3$. Every divisor class on $F_a$ has the form $xL+yM$. If its square is zero, restriction to a fibre ${\mathbb{P}}^{n-1}$ giveswhere $h$ is the hyperplane class and $h^2\ne 0$ because $n-1\ge 2$. Thus $y=0$. It follows that $L$ is intrinsically characterized as the primitive nonzero nef class whose square is zero. An isomorphism $u:F_a\to F_b$ therefore carries $L_b$ to $L_a$; the sign is positive because both classes are nef and effective. The complete pencil $|L|$ determines the ruling, sofor an automorphism $\sigma$ of ${\mathbb{P}}^1$.

On a fibre, the isomorphism preserves the positive generator ${\mathcal{O}}_{{\mathbb{P}}^{n-1}}(1)$ of its Picard group. Consequentlyfor some integer $c$. Push forward along the ruling, using ${\pi }_{\ast }\mathcal{O}(M)=E$ and the projection formula for sheaves:Every automorphism of ${\mathbb{P}}^1$ preserves each $\mathcal{O}(d)$. The uniqueness of the splitting degrees in the Birkhoff–Grothendieck theorem now implies equality of the two multisets up to a shift. Replacing this $c$ by $-c$ gives the sign convention in the final formula. One can see that uniqueness numerically: for a split bundle,The first difference counts the degrees with $a_i+t\ge 0$, and the second difference counts the multiplicity of $a_i=-t$. Hence these dimensions determine every splitting degree, with multiplicity.

For $n=2$, subtract the smaller degree and write the normalized bundle as $\mathcal{O}\oplus \mathcal{O}(a)$, $a\ge 0$. Its surface is the Hirzebruch surface ${\mathbb{F}}_a$. Let $B$ be its negative section and $L$ its fibre, so $B^2=-a$, $BL=1$, $L^2=0$. The nef cone is generated by $L$ and $B+aL$: a nef divisor $xL+yB$ must have $y\ge 0$ from intersection with a fibre and $x-ay\ge 0$ from intersection with $B$, and these two inequalities also express it as a nonnegative combination of those generators. If $a>0$, a class $uL+v(B+aL)$ with $u,v\ge 0$ has squarewhich vanishes only when $v=0$. Thus the ruling is again intrinsic, and the same bundle argument applies. If $a=0$, the surface is ${\mathbb{P}}^1\times {\mathbb{P}}^1$ and has two nef square-zero rays, its two rulings. This distinguishes it from every $a>0$ surface. Isomorphisms may exchange its rulings, but both normalized splitting degrees are zero, so the stated classification is unchanged.

For $n=1$, every scroll is ${\mathbb{P}}^1$, and any two single splitting degrees differ by a common shift. Thus all ranks are covered:Reading the braces as ordinary sets would lose information and make the assertion false when degrees repeat. For example, $(0,0,1,2)$ and $(0,1,1,2)$ have the same underlying set but not the same splitting multiset; their minima are both zero, so no nonzero common shift can reconcile them.

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.