Let denote a two-dimensional local noetherian domain and let
and
be two parameters in , i.e. elements which generate the maximal ideal up to radical. Then the punctured spectrum is
-
and every cohomology class
can be represented by a Čech cohomology class
-
with some
(). If is normal then the cohomology class is if and only if . To see this, we work with , which does not make a difference as powers of powers are again parameters. We note that under the normality assumption the syzygy module is free of rank one
( is a generator).
Then we look at the short exact sequence on ,
-
and its corresponding long exact sequence of cohomology,
-
Here, the connecting homomorphisms for an element works in the following way. On both open subsets
and
we get the local representatives
and
and their difference, considered in , defines the cohomology class. This difference is just . By the exactness of the long cohomology sequence, if and only if comes from the left, which is true if and only if belongs to the ideal generated by .
If we want to realize the geometric torsor corresponding to such a cohomology class, we start with two affine lines over
and ,
which we write as
and .
According to
Fakt
these have to be glued with the identification .