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Unavoidable support at a non-Cartier point

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If a Weil divisor D on a normal variety is not Cartier at x, every linearly equivalent divisor has x in its support of a Weil divisor. Otherwise that representative would vanish near x, expressing D as a principal Weil divisor there. On V(ac−b2) the prime divisor V(a,b) is not Cartier at the origin: its ideal has two independent generators modulo the maximal ideal times that ideal. This gives an unavoidable support point even for representatives with negative coefficients.

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