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Nonfinite generation of elliptic-curve divisor class groups

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Area of mathematics Geometry and topology Algebraic geometry Weil divisor Divisor class group Divisor class group and Picard group of a smooth curve
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For an elliptic curve over an algebraically closed field, Pic0(E)≅E(k) via P↦[P−O]. This group is infinite and divisible by any prime ℓ different from the characteristic, since [ℓ]:E→E has nonzero derivative and is a surjective morphism of projective curves. A finitely generated abelian group divisible by ℓ has zero free rank and is finite. Hence E(k), and therefore Cl(E), cannot be finitely generated. This proof applies to countable algebraically closed fields as well.

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