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The canonical line bundle of a normal variety

I have heard that the canonical divisor can be defined on a normal variety X since the smooth locus has codimension 2. Then, I have heard as well that for ANY algebraic variety such that the canonical ...
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Bertini theorems for base-point-free linear systems in positive characteristics

Suppose that $X$ is a smooth algebraic variety over an algebraically closed (uncountable if it helps) field of characteristic $p > 0$. Suppose that $L$ is a line bundle, probably ample or at least ...
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Explicit description of the space of global sections of a torus invariant Weil divisor over a real toric variety

Let $D$ be a Weil divisor on a normal toric variety $X$ with fan $\Sigma$ that is invariant under the action by the torus $T$. Then Proposition 4.3.2 of the textbook Toric Varieties by Cox, Little and ...
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Bertini's theorem over non-algebraically closed field

Let $K$ be a non-algebraically closed (infinite) field of characteristic $0$ and $X$ a smooth, projective $K$-variety. Does there exist an ample invertible sheaf $\mathcal{L}$ on $X$ such that a ...
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Reference request: Vanishing of first cohomology term in Riemann-Roch theorem for singular projective curves over a field

$\newcommand{\F}{\mathcal{F}}$ $\newcommand{\ox}{\mathcal{O}_X}$ Let $f:X \to \operatorname{Spec}(k)$ be a projective scheme of dimension one over a field $k$. The Riemann-Roch equation for such ...
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Reference request: $f^*D$ semi-ample, then $D$ semi-ample

I am looking for a suitable reference to put in a bibliography for the following fact: Let $f: X \rightarrow Y$ be a surjective morphism between normal projective varieties. Let $D$ be a $\mathbb{Q}$-...
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Pencils on del Pezzo surfaces

Let $X$ be the blow-up of $\mathbb{P}^2$ at three general points $p_1,p_2,p_3$, that is a del Pezzo surface of degree six, and let $\pi_i:X\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^1$ be the morphism induced by the ...
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The existence of the Drinfeld shtuka function

I want to understand the existence of the Drinfeld shtuka function but unfortunately I know very little in algebraic geometry. I am reading Shtukas and Jacobi sums from D. Thakur and I am stucked at ...
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Polarization of the Prym variety

Let $X\rightarrow Y$ a ramifield double cover of curves, $J_X, J_Y$ their jacobians, $P\subset J_X$ the Prym variety, for any line bundle $L$ on $X$ of degree $g_X-1$, denote by $\Theta_L$ the ...
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Embedded resolution of singularities

I'd like to check with my colleagues whether I have correctly understood "embedded resolution of singularities". Let $X$ be a nonsingular projective variety over $\mathbf C$ and let $D$ be a "nice" ...
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Stable base loci cannot contain isolated points

Let $X$ be a normal projective complex variety. A theorem of Fujita-Zariski says that if $L$ is a Cartier divisor on $X$ such that the base locus $Bs(|L|)$ is a finite set then $L$ is semiample. It ...
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Proof of Saito criterion

Does it exist another proof of saito's criterion for free divisors, other than the one in "K. Saito, Theory of logarithmic differential forms and logarithmic vector fields, J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo ...
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Examples of divisors on an analytical manifold

I am trying to understand divisors reading through Griffith and Harris but it is difficult to come up with any particular interesting example. I have browsed through Hartshone's book but everything is ...