Paper 2, Section II, G
Part II, 2009
Let be an irreducible variety over an algebraically closed field . Define the tangent space of at a point . Show that for any integer , the set is a closed subvariety of .
Assume that has characteristic different from 2. Let be the variety given by the ideal , where
Determine the singular subvariety of , and compute at each singular point . [You may assume that is irreducible.]