Arithmetic discriminants and horizontal intersections

DOI10.1007/BF01445235MaRDI QIDQ2277041zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David Harbater

Publication date 1992

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/164894

zbMATH Keywords

Arakelov theoryarithmetic surfacediscriminantdivisor groupGreen's functionsintersection number of horizontal divisorspairing on curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Local ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G20) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Arithmetic varieties and schemes; Arakelov theory; heights (14G40)

Review text

A notion of discriminant is defined over local and global fields, which agrees with the classical notion in the non-archimedean case. This is used to define a new pairing on curves over local and global fields which at finite places gives the intersection number of horizontal divisors on a corresponding surface, but which at infinite places is not the same as Arakelov's pairing. By combining this horizontal pairing with a pairing via Green's functions, a new divisor group for surfaces is constructed, which agrees with the classical divisor group in the function field case. But in the number field case, it is an enlargement of Arakelov's divisor group in which infinite fibres may be reducible.

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