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Levine–Weibel relations split on clopen pure-dimensional components

PDF p. 3: Levine–Weibel image after TheoremC; PDF p. 14: Definition6.5 pure-dimensional smooth-point subgroup

Statement

Assume the Axiom of Choice and the fixed size conventions of the supplied constructions. Fix a perfect field k. For a finite clopen union T=∐αTα of normal affine finite-type k-schemes, each of pure dimension e≥1, the completed pure-dimensional Levine–Weibel definition gives CH⁡0LW(T)≅⨁αCH⁡0LW(Tα), with the component inclusions induced by zero extension of point cycles. For a normal affine finite-type k-scheme X of dimension d≥1 which need not be pure, Krishna's exact dimension-d convention has generators only on the regular parts of its d-dimensional components. In this convention CH⁡Krd(X)≅CH⁡0LW(Xd). The left notation denotes precisely Krishna's Section2.1 group, not a redefinition of the completed pure-dimensional local item. Its source “singular locus” in this nonpure convention includes all lower-dimensional clopen components, even if they are geometrically smooth.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The stated perfect field, finite-type schemes, Choice and size bounds, the clopen decomposition and the exact Cartier-curve/semilocal-unit/principal-divisor relations of Levine–Weibel zero cycles.

Goal: Match the actual source quotient, including which smooth points are permitted.

[F1]

Normal dimension strata and the actual residue class model gives the finite clopen pieces and equality of their intrinsic smooth/regular loci over the perfect field.

[F2]

External Levine–Weibel quotient cycle map with exact generators records Krishna's actual Section2.1 top-dimensional generator convention.

[F3]

The Axiom of Choice supplies the Choice assumption inherited by the completed cycle definition and normal-component supplier. Affine finite type over k gives quasi-projectivity, and normality gives reducedness. The equal pure dimensions in the first assertion make the completed cycle definition applicable to every piece and to their finite union.

Proof

1.1F1F3givenalgebra

The free point-cycle group is the direct sum of those on the clopen pieces. A Cartier curve C⊂T splits as C∩Tα, a finite clopen decomposition; each nonempty piece is reduced purely one-dimensional. No-component-in-the-forbidden-set and the regular-sequence condition at forbidden points are checked in the same local rings, so each is a relative Cartier curve on its piece. The semilocal unit data splits as a product of the corresponding unit data, and its componentwise divisor is the sum of the same divisors supported on the pieces. Conversely a Cartier curve and a unit on one clopen piece define the identical allowed curve and relation on T. Thus the relation subgroup is exactly the direct sum of the component relation subgroups. Quotienting proves the first isomorphism.

2.1F1F2step 1.1∎

In the nonpure normal case [F2] excludes all lower-dimensional components from its permitted generator locus and includes them in the forbidden set. Since these components are clopen, a Cartier curve with a component on one of them would have that entire curve component contained in the forbidden set, which is not allowed. Every allowed curve is therefore contained in Xd. Its remaining local regular-sequence conditions and divisors are exactly those in the completed definition on Xd. Both the free generators and the relation subgroup coincide, proving the second isomorphism. This identifies the source convention without altering the completed pure-dimensional definition.

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