Paper 3, Section II, H
Part II, 2016
(a) Let be an affine variety. Define the tangent space of at a point . Say what it means for the variety to be singular at .
Define the dimension of in terms of (i) the tangent spaces of , and (ii) Krull dimension.
(b) Consider the ideal generated by the set . What is
Using the generators of the ideal, calculate the tangent space of a point in . What has gone wrong? [A complete argument is not necessary.]
(c) Calculate the dimension of the tangent space at each point for , and determine the location of the singularities of