Build a SmoothCompleteCurve' of genus g with canonical degree 2g - 2.
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An elliptic curve (genus 1) has canonical degree 0.
Arithmetic genus of a smooth plane curve of degree d: (d-1)(d-2)/2.
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Compatibility between the natural-number and integer formulations of the plane-curve genus.
Adjunction formula for a hypersurface: canonicalTwist = d - n - 1.
Rewriting of the canonical twist using the Euler sequence: K_Y = -(n + 1) + d.
Combined Euler/normal-bundle derivation of the canonical twist.
Definitional unfolding of degCanonical as d · (d - n - 1).
Expanded polynomial form of the canonical degree: d² - d(n + 1).
A hypersurface has zero canonical twist iff it is Calabi-Yau.
The canonical degree vanishes on a Calabi-Yau hypersurface.
Converse: a hypersurface with vanishing canonical degree is Calabi-Yau.
The smooth cubic in P² (an elliptic curve) as a SmoothProjectiveHypersurface.
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A smooth quartic in P³, i.e. a K3 surface, as a SmoothProjectiveHypersurface.
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A smooth quintic in P⁴, i.e. a Calabi-Yau threefold, as a SmoothProjectiveHypersurface.
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The elliptic curve (n, d) = (2, 3) is Calabi-Yau.
The K3 surface (n, d) = (3, 4) is Calabi-Yau.
The quintic threefold (n, d) = (4, 5) is Calabi-Yau.
The canonical twist of the elliptic curve is 0.
The canonical degree of the elliptic curve is 0.
The canonical degree of the K3 surface is 0.
General Calabi-Yau result: a smooth degree-(n+1) hypersurface in P^n has trivial
canonical twist.
A line in P² has canonical degree -2.
A smooth conic in P² has canonical degree -2.
A smooth cubic in P² (an elliptic curve) has canonical degree 0.
A smooth plane quartic has canonical degree 4.
Consistency check: both formulations agree that the elliptic curve has degK = 0.
The plane-curve canonical degree computed from the genus matches the hypersurface formula.
Canonical degree of a smooth degree-d hypersurface in P^n as a function of (n, d).
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Unfolding the integer-formulated degK_hypersurface.
The structured canonical degree agrees with the integer-valued degK_hypersurface formula.