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2/9/2021

PIC 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:
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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:
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And also Theorem 1.8A:
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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
That last equality is thanks to 1.11A and observing that in UFDs, f is prime iff it is irreducible. (Yes I put this sentence outside of the align environment to prevent it from going outside my post because I still haven't figure out how to fix that FffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffFUUUUUGG)