Picard groups of singular affine curves over a perfect field (Q1098901)

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Picard groups of singular affine curves over a perfect field
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    Picard groups of singular affine curves over a perfect field (English)
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    Let R be the coordinate ring of an irreducible affine curve over a perfect field k, and let S be the normalization. It is shown that the canonical map Pic(R)\(\to Pic(S)\) is an isomorphism if (and only if) its kernel is a finitely generated abelian group. Moreover, these conditions hold if and only if the curve has at most one singularity and its local ring is analytically isomorphic to a restricted power series ring \(F+XK[[ X]]\), for suitable finite algebraic extensions \(K\supseteq F\supseteq k\).
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    coordinate ring of an irreducible affine curve
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    Pic
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    Picard group
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