Singularities of Varieties
Singularities of Varieties
Singularities of Varieties
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Smooth singularities<br />
A variety <strong>of</strong> dimension n is called smooth or nonsingular at some point p iff<br />
its germ at p is isomorphic to the germ <strong>of</strong> K n .<br />
The Jacobian ideal is defined as the ideal generated by all (N − n)-minors<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Jacobi matrix <strong>of</strong> a set <strong>of</strong> equations generating the vanishing ideal.<br />
(N is the number <strong>of</strong> variable, n the dimension.)<br />
Theorem. A variety is smooth at a point p iff p does not belong to the<br />
zero set <strong>of</strong> the Jacobian ideal.<br />
VO AAG 5