Paper 2, Section II, G

Algebraic Geometry
Part II, 2010

Let X=Xn,m,rX=X_{n, m, r} be the set of n×mn \times m matrices of rank at most rr over a field kk. Show that Xn,m,rX_{n, m, r} is naturally an affine subvariety of Anm\mathbf{A}^{n m} and that Xn,m,rX_{n, m, r} is a Zariski closed subvariety of Xn,m,r+1X_{n, m, r+1}.

Show that if r<min(n,m)r<\min (n, m), then 0 is a singular point of XX.

Determine the dimension of X5,2,1X_{5,2,1}.