Paper 1, Section II, G
Part II, 2010
(i) Let . Show that is birational to , but not isomorphic to it.
(ii) Let be an affine variety. Define the dimension of in terms of the tangent spaces of .
(iii) Let be an irreducible polynomial, where is an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic. Show that .
[You may assume the Nullstellensatz.]