Cartier divisors on the affine scheme Spec R realised as units of the fractional
ideals in the fraction field.
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The principal-Cartier-divisor homomorphism: a nonzero element of the fraction field maps to its principal fractional ideal.
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The Cartier-to-Picard homomorphism DivC(R) → Pic(R), sending a Cartier divisor
to its associated line bundle.
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The map from Cartier divisors to the Picard group is surjective: every line bundle arises from a Cartier divisor.
The kernel of the Cartier-to-Picard homomorphism is exactly the image of the
principal-divisor map: Pic(R) = DivC / principals.
Proposition 22: the class group of Cartier divisors is isomorphic to the Picard
group of line bundles, ClassGroup R ≃* Pic R.
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Proposition 22 (existence): there is an isomorphism ClassGroup R ≃* Pic R.
Proposition 22 over Dedekind domains: ClassGroup R ≃* Pic R, expressing the
Picard group as Cartier divisors modulo principal divisors.