Saturday, 13 September 2008

ag.algebraic geometry - Cartier divisor on an open subscheme whose complement is of codim 2

1 - This is true for locally factorial schemes; in this case all Weil divisors are Cartier, and extending Weil divisors is not a problem.



2 - This is not true in general (for example, if you glue together two points of the affine plane over a field k, the Picard group of the resulting scheme is $k^*$, while the Picard group of the complement is trivial). It is true for schemes satisfying Serre's S2 condition.

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