The movable part is , where is the fixed part. It has no fixed components. On a smooth algebraic surface its associated divisor is nef: for each curve choose a member avoiding that curve and use nonnegative local intersection multiplicities.
Every projective line on the smooth algebraic surface through lies in the projective tangent plane , since its tangent direction is contained in the surface's Zariski tangent space. The plane section is a nonzero plane cubic. It cannot be the entire plane, since a smooth cubic surface is irreducible and has no plane component.
Each distinct projective line through is therefore a distinct degree-one factor of the cubic restricted to . A degree-three polynomial has at most three such factors. Hence there are at most three lines through any point. This is the lines through a point of a smooth cubic surface bound; equality is allowed when the tangent section consists of three concurrent lines.
On a smooth algebraic surface, distinct integral curves have nonnegative intersection numbers, because their intersection multiplicities are nonnegative. For any member of the complete linear system of a divisor, . Hence must be a component of ; otherwise the intersection would be nonnegative.
Subtracting one copy of from every effective member gives precisely the effective members linearly equivalent to . Conversely adding gives a member of . Thus is a fixed component and
Equivalently, multiplication by its defining section induces an isomorphism . The original PDF has this linear-system equality; the TeX loses the bars and reduces it to an uninformative divisor identity.
Because has no fixed components, choose two members with no common component. This uses the infinitude of the algebraically closed field and avoidance of finitely many proper linear subspaces of the section space. On a smooth algebraic surface, their intersection number is the sum of local intersection multiplicities. Since , they are disjoint. A basepoint of would belong to both, so is basepoint-free.
The resulting morphism has nonconstant image since . Its image cannot be a surface: a generically finite morphism defined by would make the positive product of its degree and the degree of its image. Thus the image is a curve. Apply Stein factorization to obtain with connected fibers and , where is a smooth projective curve. There is a positive-degree line bundle on with . The projection formula for sheaves and Riemann-Roch theorem give . Therefore