I.2.8
2/9/2021
 
 Welll... Might as well quickly crank out another one before I go to bed. It's yet another projectivization of affine
question. Here's the affine version:
 Welll... Might as well quickly crank out another one before I go to bed. It's yet another projectivization of affine
question. Here's the affine version:
 

And unlike some of the trickier exercises like the last two, we can just follow the affine proof for this one. Here's
Theorem 1.11A, which we'll use:
 

And also Theorem 1.8A:
 

Since Y is a variety, note that I(Y ) is prime. And here's my slick proof:
| dim Y | = n - 1 | |||||
| ⇐⇒ dim Y + 1 | = n | (Adding 1 to both sides) | ||||
| ⇐⇒ dim S(Y ) | = n | (by 2.6) | ||||
| ⇐⇒ dim k[x0,…,xn] - htI(Y ) | = n | (by 1.8A) | ||||
| ⇐⇒n + 1 - htI(Y ) | = n | |||||
| ⇐⇒htI(Y ) | = 1 | |||||
| ⇐⇒I(Y ) | = (f) | where f satisfies the requirements |