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Section -- an option used in a number of functions

Description

Used to specify a (global) section of an ideal or module, in order to construct an effective divisor.

Functions with optional argument named Section:

  • divisor(...,Section=>...) -- see divisor -- constructor for (Weil/Q/R)-divisors
  • embedAsIdeal(...,Section=>...) -- see embedAsIdeal -- embed a module as an ideal of a ring

For the programmer

The object Section is a symbol.


The source of this document is in Divisor.m2:3245:0.