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Feb 16, 2014 at 21:01 comment added user46578 @Arapura: Thank you for the answer. I am most interested in the case when $C$ is not reduced. I have read the above mentioned result in the reduced case although they did not give any reference. So, I wanted to know how general the result actually is.
Feb 16, 2014 at 20:51 comment added Donu Arapura From another point of view, you can think of this as a generalization of the classical adjunction formula $K_C=K_X©|_C$ when $C$ is smooth.
Feb 16, 2014 at 20:43 comment added user46578 @user76758: Thank you for the answer. This is what I am looking for.
Feb 16, 2014 at 20:39 comment added user76758 A more general fact (which can be generalized further) is that if $j:Z \hookrightarrow X$ is a closed immersion between Cohen-Macaulay projective schemes over a field $k$, with respective pure dimensions $d \le n$ then $\omega_{Z/k}=\mathcal{Ext}^{n-d}_X(O_{Z}, \omega_{X/k})$. The key is duality for finite morphisms beyond the finite flat case. The derived category framework (as in Hartshorne's R&D book) illuminates these constructions tremendously (and allows one to study the dualizing sheaf locally, which is ill-suited to the viewpoint of characterization by just a "global" property).
Feb 16, 2014 at 19:51 answer added Piotr Achinger timeline score: 6
Feb 16, 2014 at 19:46 comment added abx Well, this supposes some basic knowledge of duality theory. I suggest Altman and Kleiman Introduction to Grothendieck duality theory.
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