Picard group
The Picard group![]()
of a variety, scheme, or more generally locallyringed space is the group of locally free modules of rank with tensor product
over as the operation, usually denoted by . Alternatively, the Picard group is the group of isomorphism classes of invertible sheaves on , under tensor products.
It is not difficult to see that is isomorphic to , thefirst sheaf cohomology group of the multiplicative sheaf which consists of theunits of .
Finally, let be the group of Cartier divisors on modulo linear equivalence. If is an integral scheme then the groups and are isomorphic. Furthermote, if we let be the class group![]()
of Weil divisors (divisors
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modulo principal divisors) and is a noetherian
, integral and separated locally factorial scheme, then there is a natural isomorphism . Thus, the Picard group is sometimes called the divisor class group of .