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The quotient cycle map has exactly the smooth-point image
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 point, support and perfect K-theory constructions. Let be a normal affine scheme of finite type and pure dimension over a perfect field. The source cycle map, transported to the actual affine perfect , is It kills every completed Cartier-curve principal-divisor relation and its image is exactly . Its codomain can therefore be restricted to this subgroup, yielding a surjection onto it. This is an image statement, not an assertion of injectivity of the cycle map or an isomorphism of the entire Chow group with that image.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The stated normal affine finite-type pure-dimensional scheme over a perfect field, Choice and size bounds, and the exact quotient definition above.
Goal: Identify the actual map and its image, rather than infer descent merely from naming point generators.
Affine finite type makes quasi-projective over the field, and normality makes it reduced. Positive pure dimension and the perfect-field hypothesis therefore put in the source domain. External Levine–Weibel quotient cycle map with exact generators supplies the established quotient map and its values on generators; in particular all allowed principal-divisor relations are killed.
Normal dimension strata and the actual residue class model identifies those values with the actual current point classes. Subgroup generated by smooth closed points identifies their generated subgroup with the stated pure-dimensional smooth-point subgroup.
The Axiom of Choice supplies the Choice assumption inherited by the point-class and affine perfect comparison in [F2]; the fixed size bounds are those of these supplied constructions.
Proof
Apply the supplied comparisons under [F3]. Let be the free abelian group on smooth closed points and the completed Cartier-curve relation subgroup. [F1] asserts a homomorphism on whose composite with the quotient sends to the classical residue class. By [F2] the affine perfect comparison transports that homomorphism to the current K-group and sends the same generator to . Therefore every member of , including each divisor generator, maps to zero under this actual point-class map. This descent is the exact imported established input; it is not a new local reconstruction of the relation theorem.
The quotient is surjective, so composing any homomorphism from with it does not change its image. The image of the resulting free-point map consists exactly of all finite integer linear combinations of the residue classes. By [F2] this is , and this subgroup lies in the same-weight motivic filtration by the completed definition. Restricting the map's codomain gives the stated surjection. No assertion about its kernel beyond being killed has been made.
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