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Line bundles over an affine-space parameter open come from the smooth factor
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a smooth geometrically integral finite-type -scheme and a nonempty open. Every invertible sheaf on is isomorphic to the pullback of an invertible sheaf on . Consequently after any field extension its restrictions at all rational parameter points are isomorphic to that same base extension of .
Facts & Assumptions
Smooth schemes are locally factorial; invertible sheaves on integral schemes have rational sections and hence Cartier divisor representatives. On locally factorial schemes Cartier and Weil divisors, and their principal-divisor classes, agree. (Regular local rings are unique factorization domains, Rational sections of line bundles are Cartier divisors, Under AC, Cartier and Weil divisors agree on a locally factorial Noetherian integral scheme)
Finite-variable polynomial rings over fields are UFDs, and their height-one primes are principal; codimension and transcendence-degree dimension formulas hold for finite-type affine domains. (Every finite-variable polynomial ring over a field is a UFD, with prime irreducibles and principal height-one primes, The dimension formula for affine domains)
Proof
Given: AC, , , and as in the statement.
Represent by a Cartier divisor and then by a Weil divisor on using [F1]. Close each of its finitely many prime components in with the same coefficient. The closures have codimension one because this is an open extension of varieties. The product is smooth and integral, so [F1] makes this extended Weil divisor a Cartier divisor . Its restriction represents .
Write . The components of which dominate restrict to codimension-one primes of , by [F2]. This is a UFD, so choose their irreducible defining polynomials and form their product, with integer exponents given by the coefficients of . View that product as a nonzero rational function on . The divisor has no component dominating . A remaining codimension-one component has image closure of codimension at most one in , since its fibre dimension is at most and [F2] gives the total dimension as . Its image is therefore a prime divisor on , and its generic fibre over has dimension . The affine-space fibre is integral; a closed subset of full dimension is the whole fibre. Consequently this component is precisely . Its multiplicity as a pullback divisor is one: at the generic point the base DVR uniformizer remains a uniformizer after the purely transcendental residue-field extension.
Thus for a Weil divisor on . By [F1], is Cartier and defines . The principal divisor does not change the invertible-sheaf class, so . Restricting to proves the assertion. Base extension and then restriction to a rational parameter point returns after that base extension, proving parameter constancy. This argument neither assumes a -rational point of nor assumes infinite or perfect.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Choice
- Regular local rings are unique factorization domains
- Rational sections of line bundles are Cartier divisors
- Under AC, Cartier and Weil divisors agree on a locally factorial Noetherian integral scheme
- The dimension formula for affine domains
- Every finite-variable polynomial ring over a field is a UFD, with prime irreducibles and principal height-one primes
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Sources
- Stacks Project, Lemma 33.30.5, with its divisor pullback proof (standard reference, not scraped)
- Stacks Project, Divisors, Lemmas 31.29.1 and 31.29.4 (standard reference, not scraped)