Divisors of an algebraic function field #
A divisor of F / k is a finite integer combination of its normalized places. The underlying
free abelian group, its coefficientwise order, effectivity, and its positive/negative part
decomposition are supplied by TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.WeilDivisor; this file specializes that
API rather than constructing a second formal-divisor theory.
The degree of a function-field divisor is the weighted degree
\sum_P D(P) [F_P : k].
The residue degrees are finite and positive when F / k is an algebraic function field. Thus
degree is nonnegative on effective divisors, and is positive on every nonzero effective divisor.
The weights cannot be omitted over a general constant field: this file identifies the weighted
degree with the unweighted coefficient sum only when every place is rational, in particular over
an algebraically closed constant field.
This is the divisor carrier and degree portion of Stichtenoth, Algebraic Function Fields and Codes, 2nd ed., Definition 1.4.1. Principal divisors and the product formula follow after the finiteness of zeros and poles.
A divisor of F / k is a finite formal integer combination of its normalized places.
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The degree of a function-field divisor, weighted by the degrees of its residue fields.
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- TauCeti.Divisor.degree = TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.WeilDivisor.weightedDegree fun (P : TauCeti.Place k F) => ↑P.degree
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The degree of a function-field divisor is the formal weighted degree against the residue
degrees; this is the bridge to the weight-generic TauCeti.AlgebraicGeometry.WeilDivisor API.
The degree-zero divisors are the weighted-degree-zero divisors for the residue-degree
weights. This is the bridge from the degree kernel to the weight-generic WeilDivisor API,
and in particular to Pic⁰.
The degree of an effective divisor is nonnegative. This does not need a function-field
hypothesis, since finrank is always a natural number even before its finiteness is known.
A place carrying a nonzero coefficient in an effective divisor has degree at most the degree of that divisor.
An effective divisor of a function field is supported at no more places than its degree, each place of its support contributing at least one to the degree.
An effective divisor of degree one on an algebraic function field contains a rational place.
Indeed, any place in its support contributes at least its positive residue degree to the total degree, so both that residue degree and its coefficient must equal one.
The coefficients of an effective divisor of a function field are bounded by its degree.
An effective divisor of degree one is a place of degree one: since every place of an algebraic function field has degree at least one, an effective divisor of degree one is the prime divisor of a single place, and that place has degree one.
Degree is strictly monotone on divisors of an algebraic function field.
Degrees grow without bound along a single place: since every place of an algebraic
function field has degree at least one, adding enough copies of a fixed place P to D carries
the degree past any prescribed bound c. This is how a divisor is made to satisfy a
large-degree hypothesis while its coefficients away from P are left untouched.
Over an algebraically closed constant field, divisor degree is the ordinary coefficient sum.
Over an algebraically closed constant field, the degree is the sum of the coefficients.