On the parallelism between algebraic and analytic Picard groups of algebraic affine hypersurfaces.

For any complete C -algebraic variety X and its associated compact C -analytic space X , it follows from the well known GAGA principle that the algebraic Picard group P i c (X) and the analytic Picard group P i c (X) are isomorphic. Our main purpose here is to investigate an analogous situation for non complete situation, namely C -algebraic affine hypersurfaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]