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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

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