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If I pull back a cycle of codimension $c$ along a morphism of schemes I can easily see that the codimension can stay the same or the codimension can drop to all the way to $0$. But intuitively it ...

Let $\varphi\colon X_1\to X_2$ be dominant proper morphism of finite degree (in particular $\dim X_1=\dim X_2$) between varieties. Let $D \subset X_2$ be a Cartier divisor. Is it true that $$\varphi_*...