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Every finite flat commutative group scheme over a noetherian local ring is the torsion component of the Picard scheme of a smooth projective scheme with 3-dimensional fibers, built as a quotient of a complete intersection. An application: Hodge numbers that jump in a smooth projective family.

An example, due to Serre, of a smooth projective surface in positive characteristic whose Picard scheme fails to be reduced, worked out via the two governing dimension inequalities.