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The global residue theorem on a smooth proper curve over a perfect field
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice as inherited from the residue and coherent-cohomology suppliers. Let be a smooth proper geometrically integral curve over a perfect field and let be a rational differential on , i.e. an element of . Then is nonzero at only finitely many closed points of , and the sum of the residues vanishes: The residue may be computed by the coefficient-trace formula of the local residue definition (the agreement between the abstract residue and the coefficient-trace residue is the content of the cited corollary); the statement is characteristic-free, and no separability hypothesis beyond perfectness of is used.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: a perfect field , a smooth proper geometrically integral curve over with function field , and a rational differential .
Every closed point of has local ring a discrete valuation ring with fraction field , uniformizer and residue field ; since is perfect, is finite separable, so the local residue is defined at every closed point by for the Laurent expansion , independently of the choice of uniformizer (Residue of a rational differential at a separable closed point, Curves over a field, The function field of an irreducible classical affine variety, Local rings at closed points of smooth curves are discrete valuation rings).
The -vector space is spanned by the elements with (Universal Kähler differential module). For any -subspace of a -module with for all (in the sense of Commensurable subspaces and the ideals E_0, E_1, E_2 of E) there is a unique -linear abstract residue given on by the trace of a commutator of lifts of and (Existence and uniqueness of the abstract residue map res_V: Omega^1_{K/k} -> k). In this formula an admissible lift satisfies (in particular, image contained in places it in ), and a discrepancy whose restriction to has finite-dimensional image lies in ; the resulting commutator is finite potent.
Additivity (Tate's ): if and are -subspaces of with and for all , then and for all , and (Additivity of the abstract residue over intersecting subspaces).
Basic properties of the abstract residue: it depends only on the commensurability class of the lattice, is zero whenever is finite-dimensional, is zero when is a -submodule of , and satisfies the continuity property (Tate's ) that implies . In particular this holds when and , equivalently when (Basic properties of the abstract residue: restriction, commensurability, vanishing, logarithmic residues).
The adelic pair: is the restricted product of the completions and ; the diagonal copy of lies in and is a -submodule; for every ; for all there is a finite set of closed points outside which , , are integral, and on the tail one has ; moreover and is finite-dimensional. The proof of this supplier also shows that every has only finitely many poles and, at a pole of order , has dimension ; the local quotient is zero at all other points. These are the local bounds used below (The adele quotient V_X/(K + A_X) computes H^1 of the structure sheaf).
for the smooth proper geometrically integral curve (Functions on a proper curve); the abstract residue of the one-point pair equals the coefficient-trace residue of [F1], and in particular it annihilates every differential regular at (The abstract residue computes the coefficient-trace residue at every closed point, Residue of a rational differential at a separable closed point).
The Axiom of Choice is The Axiom of Choice.
(Finite-potent trace property (T2).) If is a finite-potent endomorphism of a -vector space and is -stable, then where is the induced endomorphism of (The trace of a finite potent endomorphism exists and is unique).
At each closed point , the stalk of the sheaf of differentials is the free module for a uniformizer ; the universal derivation sends to this module, so if then is regular at . Its coefficient in the completed basis has no negative powers, and the coefficient-trace residue therefore vanishes (A uniformizer differential generates the module of differentials, Universal Kähler differential module, Residue of a rational differential at a separable closed point).
Proof
Proof technique: direct; reduce to , apply additivity to the adelic lattice and the diagonal copy of , and split the adelic residue into its finitely many local factors with a vanishing tail.
Reduce to generators and dispose of . If , then , so and every local residue and the abstract residue are zero by their -linearity [F1, F2]. Now take . By [F1] the local residues are defined at every closed point; by [F2] the adelic residue on is -linear and defined because [F5] gives and for every . The elements span over by [F2], so it suffices to prove finite support and sum zero for arbitrary with .
The adelic residue vanishes. By [F3] applied to the two lattices and the diagonal copy of (both stable by [F5]) we have . Each term on the right vanishes: because is finite-dimensional by [F5] and the residue vanishes on lattices of finite codimension by [F4]; because by [F5] and [F6], so is finite-dimensional over and commensurable with the zero subspace, whose residue is zero by [F4] since zero is a -submodule; and because is a -submodule of , again by [F4]. Hence .
Establish stability of the tail and the finite block decomposition. Choose a finite set outside which , and are integral, as in [F5], and put , , and . This is a -module pair: for fixed , its finite pole set and the finite exceptional set for an element of show that their product is integral outside a finite set. More precisely, let , which is finite by the finite-pole calculation in [F5]; if this set is empty. For , put . The local calculation in [F5] gives , and this quotient is zero for . The coordinate map embeds into the finite direct sum : its kernel is zero because a class whose every coordinate is zero is represented by an element of . Thus for every . The same local calculation proves for each , so every block pair is stable. By the definitions of the restricted product and product lattices, there are finite direct-sum decompositions and the diagonal -action preserves every block.
Split the abstract residue by admissible block lifts and trace additivity. Index the finitely many blocks in step 1.3 by . By [F7] choose a -linear projection for each block. For , define , where is multiplication by on that block. The image of lies in , so . Since , choose a finite-dimensional with . Because is the identity on , , a finite-dimensional space; hence . The block sums and are therefore admissible lifts for the pair : their images lie in , and their discrepancies on have finite-dimensional image since there are only finitely many blocks. Their commutator is block diagonal, , with finite potent by [F2]. For each block choose a positive exponent with finite-dimensional and let . Then is finite-dimensional, so is finite potent. Each block is -invariant; applying (T2) from [F8] successively to the partial sums of these finitely many blocks gives The second equality is the defining commutator formula [F2] on each stable block. By [F6], each point term is the local coefficient-trace residue, so this proves the claimed finite-block decomposition.
Only finitely many local residues are nonzero. If , then by construction. By [F9], is regular at , so its coefficient in the completed basis has no negative powers; the coefficient-trace formula [F1] gives . Thus the support of the local residues is contained in the finite set .
The tail vanishes and the finite sum is zero. At every , both and are integral by the choice of , so pointwise multiplication gives and . It follows also that and , hence the full condition in [F4] holds (and its stable- special case applies). Therefore . Combining this with steps 1.2 and 2.1 gives .
Conclude. By step 2.2 the sum over all closed points is the finite sum over , which vanishes by step 3.1. This proves finite support and sum zero for every with , while step 1.1 handled . Since these generators span and every local residue and the adelic residue are -linear [F1, F2], the two claims hold for every .
Depends on
- The abstract residue computes the coefficient-trace residue at every closed point
- The Axiom of Choice
- Curves over a field
- Commensurable subspaces and the ideals E_0, E_1, E_2 of E
- The function field of an irreducible classical affine variety
- Universal Kähler differential module
- Residue of a rational differential at a separable closed point
- Additivity of the abstract residue over intersecting subspaces
- Basic properties of the abstract residue: restriction, commensurability, vanishing, logarithmic residues
- The adele quotient V_X/(K + A_X) computes H^1 of the structure sheaf
- The trace of a finite potent endomorphism exists and is unique
- A uniformizer differential generates the module of differentials
- Existence and uniqueness of the abstract residue map res_V: Omega^1_{K/k} -> k
- Functions on a proper curve
- Local rings at closed points of smooth curves are discrete valuation rings
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Sources
- John Tate, Residues of differentials on curves, Ann. Sci. E.N.S. (4) 1 (1968) 149-159 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Ravi Vakil, The Rising Sea (version of October 21, 2025), Chs. 19 and 21 (standard reference, not scraped)