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Note on the Grothendieck Group of Subspaces of Rational Functions and Shokurov's Cartier b-divisors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Kiumars Kaveh  and
A. G. Khovanskii
Kiumars Kaveh
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA e-mail: kaveh@pitt.edu
A. G. Khovanskii
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON and Moscow Independent University, Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences e-mail: askold@math.utoronto.ca
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In a previous paper the authors developed an intersection theory for subspaces of rational functions on an algebraic variety $X$ over $\mathbf{k}\,=\,\mathbb{C}$. In this short note, we first extend this intersection theory to an arbitrary algebraically closed ground field $\mathbf{k}$. Secondly we give an isomorphism between the group of Cartier $b$-divisors on the birational class of $X$ and the Grothendieck group of the semigroup of subspaces of rational functions on $X$. The constructed isomorphism moreover preserves the intersection numbers. This provides an alternative point of view on Cartier $b$-divisors and their intersection theory.

Keywords

14C2014Exxintersection numberCartier divisorCartier b-divisorGrothendieck group
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2014 , pp. 562 - 572
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2014

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