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projective varieties

projective varieties is the plural of projective variety.

Meaning of projective variety

Noun

projective variety (plural projective varieties)

  1. A Zariski closed subvariety of a projective space; the zero-locus of a set of homogeneous polynomials that generates a prime ideal.
    • Varieties are sometimes called closed sets and some authors call an open subset of a projective variety a quasiprojective variety. The latter term is in an attempt to unify the concept of affine and projective variety.2005, Max K. Agoston, Computer Graphics and Geometric Modelling: Mathematics, Springer, page 724

Questions about projective varieties

What is projective varieties the plural of?
Projective varieties is the plural of projective variety.

Words near projective varieties in the dictionary

  1. projective modules
  2. projective plane
  3. projective planes
  4. projective space
  5. projective spaces
  6. projective varieties
  7. projective variety
  8. projectively
  9. projectives
  10. projectivisation
  11. projectivisations

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