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Smooth Morphism
In algebraic geometry, a morphism f:X \to S between schemes is said to be smooth if *(i) it is locally of finite presentation *(ii) it is flat, and *(iii) for every geometric point \overline \to S the fiber X_ = X \times_S is regular. (iii) means that each geometric fiber of ''f'' is a nonsingular variety (if it is separated). Thus, intuitively speaking, a smooth morphism gives a flat family of nonsingular varieties. If ''S'' is the spectrum of an algebraically closed field and ''f'' is of finite type, then one recovers the definition of a nonsingular variety. A singular variety is called smoothable if it can be put in a flat family so that the nearby fibers are all smooth. Such a family is called a smoothning of the variety. Equivalent definitions There are many equivalent definitions of a smooth morphism. Let f: X \to S be locally of finite presentation. Then the following are equivalent. # ''f'' is smooth. # ''f'' is formally smooth (see below). # ''f'' is flat and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algebraic Geometry
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; the modern approach generalizes this in a few different aspects. The fundamental objects of study in algebraic geometry are algebraic variety, algebraic varieties, which are geometric manifestations of solution set, solutions of systems of polynomial equations. Examples of the most studied classes of algebraic varieties are line (geometry), lines, circles, parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas, cubic curves like elliptic curves, and quartic curves like lemniscate of Bernoulli, lemniscates and Cassini ovals. These are plane algebraic curves. A point of the plane lies on an algebraic curve if its coordinates satisfy a given polynomial equation. Basic questions involve the study of points of special interest like singular point of a curve, singular p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quasi-finite Morphism
In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, a morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' of schemes is quasi-finite if it is of finite type and satisfies any of the following equivalent conditions: * Every point ''x'' of ''X'' is isolated in its fiber ''f''−1(''f''(''x'')). In other words, every fiber is a discrete (hence finite) set. * For every point ''x'' of ''X'', the scheme is a finite κ(''f''(''x''))-scheme. (Here κ(''p'') is the residue field at a point ''p''.) * For every point ''x'' of ''X'', \mathcal_\otimes \kappa(f(x)) is finitely generated over \kappa(f(x)). Quasi-finite morphisms were originally defined by Alexander Grothendieck in SGA 1 and did not include the finite type hypothesis. This hypothesis was added to the definition in EGA II 6.2 because it makes it possible to give an algebraic characterization of quasi-finiteness in terms of stalks. For a general morphism and a point ''x'' in ''X'', ''f'' is said to be quasi-finite at ''x'' if ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Characteristic (algebra)
In mathematics, the characteristic of a ring , often denoted , is defined to be the smallest positive number of copies of the ring's multiplicative identity () that will sum to the additive identity (). If no such number exists, the ring is said to have characteristic zero. That is, is the smallest positive number such that: : \underbrace_ = 0 if such a number exists, and otherwise. Motivation The special definition of the characteristic zero is motivated by the equivalent definitions characterized in the next section, where the characteristic zero is not required to be considered separately. The characteristic may also be taken to be the exponent of the ring's additive group, that is, the smallest positive integer such that: : \underbrace_ = 0 for every element of the ring (again, if exists; otherwise zero). This definition applies in the more general class of rngs (see '); for (unital) rings the two definitions are equivalent due to their distributive law. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finite Field
In mathematics, a finite field or Galois field (so-named in honor of Évariste Galois) is a field (mathematics), field that contains a finite number of Element (mathematics), elements. As with any field, a finite field is a Set (mathematics), set on which the operations of multiplication, addition, subtraction and division are defined and satisfy certain basic rules. The most common examples of finite fields are the integers mod n, integers mod p when p is a prime number. The ''order'' of a finite field is its number of elements, which is either a prime number or a prime power. For every prime number p and every positive integer k there are fields of order p^k. All finite fields of a given order are isomorphism, isomorphic. Finite fields are fundamental in a number of areas of mathematics and computer science, including number theory, algebraic geometry, Galois theory, finite geometry, cryptography and coding theory. Properties A finite field is a finite set that is a fiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect Field
In algebra, a field ''k'' is perfect if any one of the following equivalent conditions holds: * Every irreducible polynomial over ''k'' has no multiple roots in any field extension ''F/k''. * Every irreducible polynomial over ''k'' has non-zero formal derivative. * Every irreducible polynomial over ''k'' is separable. * Every finite extension of ''k'' is separable. * Every algebraic extension of ''k'' is separable. * Either ''k'' has characteristic 0, or, when ''k'' has characteristic , every element of ''k'' is a ''p''th power. * Either ''k'' has characteristic 0, or, when ''k'' has characteristic , the Frobenius endomorphism is an automorphism of ''k''. * The separable closure of ''k'' is algebraically closed. * Every reduced commutative ''k''-algebra ''A'' is a separable algebra; i.e., A \otimes_k F is reduced for every field extension ''F''/''k''. (see below) Otherwise, ''k'' is called imperfect. In particular, all fields of characteristic zero and all finite fields ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kähler Differential
In mathematics, Kähler differentials provide an adaptation of differential forms to arbitrary commutative rings or schemes. The notion was introduced by Erich Kähler in the 1930s. It was adopted as standard in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry somewhat later, once the need was felt to adapt methods from calculus and geometry over the complex numbers to contexts where such methods are not available. Definition Let and be commutative rings and be a ring homomorphism. An important example is for a field and a unital algebra over (such as the coordinate ring of an affine variety). Kähler differentials formalize the observation that the derivatives of polynomials are again polynomial. In this sense, differentiation is a notion which can be expressed in purely algebraic terms. This observation can be turned into a definition of the module :\Omega_ of differentials in different, but equivalent ways. Definition using derivations An -linear '' derivation'' on is an - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Separable Field Extension
In field theory, a branch of algebra, an algebraic field extension E/F is called a separable extension if for every \alpha\in E, the minimal polynomial of \alpha over is a separable polynomial (i.e., its formal derivative is not the zero polynomial, or equivalently it has no repeated roots in any extension field).Isaacs, p. 281 There is also a more general definition that applies when is not necessarily algebraic over . An extension that is not separable is said to be ''inseparable''. Every algebraic extension of a field of characteristic zero is separable, and every algebraic extension of a finite field is separable.Isaacs, Theorem 18.11, p. 281 It follows that most extensions that are considered in mathematics are separable. Nevertheless, the concept of separability is important, as the existence of inseparable extensions is the main obstacle for extending many theorems proved in characteristic zero to non-zero characteristic. For example, the fundamental theorem of Galois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Extension
In mathematics, particularly in algebra, a field extension is a pair of fields K \subseteq L, such that the operations of ''K'' are those of ''L'' restricted to ''K''. In this case, ''L'' is an extension field of ''K'' and ''K'' is a subfield of ''L''. For example, under the usual notions of addition and multiplication, the complex numbers are an extension field of the real numbers; the real numbers are a subfield of the complex numbers. Field extensions are fundamental in algebraic number theory, and in the study of polynomial roots through Galois theory, and are widely used in algebraic geometry. Subfield A subfield K of a field L is a subset K\subseteq L that is a field with respect to the field operations inherited from L. Equivalently, a subfield is a subset that contains the multiplicative identity 1, and is closed under the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and taking the inverse of a nonzero element of K. As , the latter definition implies K and L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weighted Projective Space
In algebraic geometry, a weighted projective space P(''a''0,...,''a''''n'') is the projective variety Proj(''k'' 'x''0,...,''x''''n'' associated to the graded ring ''k'' 'x''0,...,''x''''n''where the variable ''x''''k'' has degree ''a''''k''. Properties *If ''d'' is a positive integer then P(''a''0,''a''1,...,''a''''n'') is isomorphic to P(''da''0,''da''1,...,''da''''n''). This is a property of the Proj construction; geometrically it corresponds to the ''d''-tuple Veronese embedding. So without loss of generality one may assume that the degrees ''a''''i'' have no common factor. *Suppose that ''a''''0'',''a''''1'',...,''a''''n'' have no common factor, and that ''d'' is a common factor of all the ''a''i with ''i''≠''j'', then P(''a''0,''a''1,...,''a''''n'') is isomorphic to P(''a''0/d,...,''a''j-1/d,''a''j,''a''j+1/d,...,''a''''n''/d) (note that ''d'' is coprime to ''a''''j''; otherwise the isomorphism does not hold). So one may further assume that any set of ''n'' variables ''a'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vector Bundle
In mathematics, a vector bundle is a topological construction that makes precise the idea of a family of vector spaces parameterized by another space X (for example X could be a topological space, a manifold, or an algebraic variety): to every point x of the space X we associate (or "attach") a vector space V(x) in such a way that these vector spaces fit together to form another space of the same kind as X (e.g. a topological space, manifold, or algebraic variety), which is then called a vector bundle over X. The simplest example is the case that the family of vector spaces is constant, i.e., there is a fixed vector space V such that V(x)=V for all x in X: in this case there is a copy of V for each x in X and these copies fit together to form the vector bundle X\times V over X. Such vector bundles are said to be ''trivial''. A more complicated (and prototypical) class of examples are the tangent bundles of smooth (or differentiable) manifolds: to every point of such a mani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobian Matrix
In vector calculus, the Jacobian matrix (, ) of a vector-valued function of several variables is the matrix of all its first-order partial derivatives. If this matrix is square, that is, if the number of variables equals the number of components of function values, then its determinant is called the Jacobian determinant. Both the matrix and (if applicable) the determinant are often referred to simply as the Jacobian. They are named after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. The Jacobian matrix is the natural generalization to vector valued functions of several variables of the derivative and the differential of a usual function. This generalization includes generalizations of the inverse function theorem and the implicit function theorem, where the non-nullity of the derivative is replaced by the non-nullity of the Jacobian determinant, and the multiplicative inverse of the derivative is replaced by the inverse of the Jacobian matrix. The Jacobian determinant is fundamentally used f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehresmann's Theorem
In mathematics, or specifically, in differential topology, Ehresmann's lemma or Ehresmann's fibration theorem states that if a smooth mapping f\colon M \rightarrow N, where M and N are smooth manifolds, is # a surjective submersion, and # a proper map (in particular, this condition is always satisfied if ''M'' is compact), then it is a locally trivial fibration. This is a foundational result in differential topology due to Charles Ehresmann, and has many variants. See also * Thom's first isotopy lemma References * * {{cite book, last1=Kolář, first1=Ivan, last2=Michor, first2=Peter W., last3=Slovák, first3=Jan, title=Natural operations in differential geometry, publisher=Springer-Verlag Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in ..., location=Berlin, year=1993, isbn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
