Lemma 55.11.1. In Situation 55.9.3 suppose we have an effective Cartier divisors D, D' \subset X such that D' = D + C_ i for some i \in \{ 1, \ldots , n\} and D' \subset X_ k. Then
\chi (X_ k, \mathcal{O}_{D'}) - \chi (X_ k, \mathcal{O}_ D) = \chi (X_ k, \mathcal{O}_ X(-D)|_{C_ i}) = -(D \cdot C_ i) + \chi (C_ i, \mathcal{O}_{C_ i})
Proof. The second equality follows from the definition of the bilinear form (\ \cdot \ ) in (55.9.6.1) and Lemma 55.9.6. To see the first equality we distinguish two cases. Namely, if C_ i \not\subset D, then D' is the scheme theoretic union of D and C_ i (by Divisors, Lemma 31.13.10) and we get a short exact sequence
0 \to \mathcal{O}_{D'} \to \mathcal{O}_ D \times \mathcal{O}_{C_ i} \to \mathcal{O}_{D \cap C_ i} \to 0
by Morphisms, Lemma 29.4.6. Since we also have an exact sequence
0 \to \mathcal{O}_ X(-D)|_{C_ i} \to \mathcal{O}_{C_ i} \to \mathcal{O}_{D \cap C_ i} \to 0
(Divisors, Remark 31.14.11) we conclude that the claim holds by additivity of euler characteristics (Varieties, Lemma 33.33.2). On the other hand, if C_ i \subset D then we get an exact sequence
0 \to \mathcal{O}_ X(-D)|_{C_ i} \to \mathcal{O}_{D'} \to \mathcal{O}_ D \to 0
by Divisors, Lemma 31.14.3 and we immediately see the lemma holds. \square
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