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The canonical bundle of a genus-one curve is trivial
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice as inherited from the duality suppliers. Let be a smooth proper geometrically integral curve over a field of genus . Then is isomorphic to , every canonical divisor is principal, and . No rational point of is needed.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A field ; a smooth proper geometrically integral curve over of genus ; its canonical bundle and a canonical divisor .
For a canonical divisor on a smooth proper geometrically integral curve of genus one has ; for therefore . (The canonical divisor has degree 2g - 2)
The canonical sheaf has and for every canonical divisor; for therefore and , so is one-dimensional and nonzero. (The canonical bundle has exactly g independent sections, The Riemann-Roch dimension l(D))
A degree-zero invertible sheaf with a nonzero global section is trivial: if is invertible on with and , then ; equivalently, a nontrivial degree-zero invertible sheaf has no nonzero global section. (A degree-zero line bundle with a nonzero section is trivial)
The canonical bundle is , and for a nonzero rational differential with divisor one has ; the divisors of the nonzero rational differentials form a single linear equivalence class, so any two canonical divisors are linearly equivalent. (Canonical bundle and canonical divisors)
An invertible sheaf on is locally free of rank one; for the structure sheaf the global sections are the constants and , the degree of being . (Invertible sheaves, Degree divisor proper curve, The Riemann-Roch dimension l(D))
The Axiom of Choice: every family of nonempty sets has a choice function. (The Axiom of Choice)
Proof
Proof technique: direct; combine with and the triviality criterion for degree-zero line bundles.
(Set-up.) By [F4] the canonical sheaf is invertible and for the canonical divisor of any nonzero rational differential, and the canonical divisors form a single linear equivalence class; by [F1] one has , and by [F2] one has .
The degree of the invertible sheaf is computed by the degree of any associated divisor, so by step 1.1.
By [F2] the space has dimension one, hence is nonzero.
Since is an invertible sheaf of degree zero with nonzero by steps 2.1 and 2.2, the criterion [F3] gives .
(Canonical divisors are principal.) By step 3.1 is trivial, so a generator , which exists because by step 1.1, is a nowhere-vanishing global section; under an isomorphism from step 3.1 it corresponds to a nonzero global section of , and the divisor of a nonzero global section of an invertible sheaf is effective of degree by [F5], hence is the zero divisor because the only effective divisor of degree zero on is ; thus the canonical divisor is principal. Since by [F4] every canonical divisor is linearly equivalent to this one, every canonical divisor is the divisor of a rational function, that is, principal.
Assertions: is step 3.1, is step 1.1 (in particular no rational point of was used anywhere), and the principality of all canonical divisors is step 4.1; the Axiom of Choice [F6] is used exactly through the duality suppliers cited above.
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Sources
- William Fulton, Algebraic Curves (Internet Archive copy), Ch. 8 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Ravi Vakil, The Rising Sea (version of October 21, 2025) (standard reference, not scraped)
- MIT 18.725 Algebraic Geometry (Fall 2015) course notes, Lectures 24-25 (standard reference, not scraped)