ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Local characterization of algebraic manifolds and characterization of components of the set Sf

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Św. Tomasza 30, 31-027 Kraków, Poland

Abstract

We show that every n-dimensional smooth algebraic variety X can be covered by Zariski open subsets Ui which are isomorphic to closed smooth hypersurfaces in n+1. As an application we show that forevery (pure) n-1-dimensional ℂ-uniruled variety Xm there is a generically-finite (even quasi-finite) polynomial mapping f:nm such that XSf. This gives (together with [3]) a full characterization of irreducible components of the set Sf for generically-finite polynomial mappings f:nm.

Keywords

ℂ-uniruled variety, polynomial mappings, affine space

Bibliography

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  3. Z. Jelonek, Testing sets for properness of polynomial mappings, Math. Ann. 315 (1999), 1-35.
  4. K. Nowak, Injective endomorphisms of algebraic varieties, ibid. 299 (1994), 769-778.
Pages:
7-13
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-06-25
Accepted
2000-02-05
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences