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Divisors class groups of singular surfaces

Commutative Algebra 2013-01-16 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We compute divisors class groups of singular surfaces. Most notably we produce an exact sequence that relates the Cartier divisors and almost Cartier divisors of a surface to the those of its normalization. This generalizes Hartshorne's theorem for the cubic ruled surface in P^3. We apply these results to limit the possible curves that can be set-theoretic complete intersection in P^3 in characteristic zero.

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@article{arxiv.1301.3222,
  title  = {Divisors class groups of singular surfaces},
  author = {Robin Hartshorne and Claudia Polini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.3222},
  year   = {2013}
}
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