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:
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 |