The number of monomials of degree d in n+1 variables: C(n+d, d). This is the dimension
of the space of degree-d forms used in the Veronese embedding.
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Dimension of the target projective space of the degree-d Veronese embedding of ℙⁿ.
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There is always at least one monomial of given degree, so veroneseMonomialCount > 0.
For d ≥ 1, the Veronese embedding dimension is at least n (so it is a genuine embedding,
not a degeneration).
Dimension of the parameter space of degree-d hypersurfaces in ℙⁿ.
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Via the Veronese embedding, a degree-d hypersurface in ℙⁿ becomes a hyperplane in the
target projective space; the parameter spaces have the same dimension.
Number of conditions imposed by requiring smoothness at a fixed point: the value of f and
the n partial derivatives, so n + 1 conditions.
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The number of smoothness conditions (n + 1) does not exceed the dimension of the parameter
space of degree-d hypersurfaces (for d ≥ 2, n ≥ 1).
The incidence variety (pairs (x, f) with f singular at x) has dimension strictly less
than the total monomial count, giving room for a smooth hypersurface to exist generically.
Codimension count: the dimension of the incidence variety plus one is at most the parameter dimension, so the projection cannot be surjective and the generic fiber is smooth.
The discriminant locus has positive codimension in the parameter space: there is a strict
gap of at least 1.
Analogous codimension count for the case of a smooth subvariety X ⊂ ℙⁿ of dimension k,
needed to obtain smooth degree-d sections of X.
Combined summary of the Veronese-based Bertini dimension count: the incidence variety has
strictly smaller dimension than the parameter space, hypersurfaces of degree d correspond to
hyperplanes via the Veronese embedding, and there are enough monomials.
The Zariski topology on the space of degree-d homogeneous polynomials, generated by basic
open sets where a specified monomial coefficient is nonzero.
A property P holds generically on α if it holds on a dense open subset.
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The hypersurface V(f) ⊂ ℙⁿ is smooth: at every nonzero point where all partial derivatives
of f vanish, the value f(x) is nonzero (i.e. x is not on the hypersurface).
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A smooth projective subvariety of ℙⁿ: a finite collection of homogeneous defining
polynomials such that at every nonzero point of the variety, the Jacobian condition holds.
- definingPolys : Finset (MvPolynomial (Fin (n + 1)) k)
- polysHomogeneous (p : MvPolynomial (Fin (n + 1)) k) : p ∈ self.definingPolys → ∃ (d : ℕ), p.IsHomogeneous d
- isSmooth (x : Fin (n + 1) → k) : x ≠ 0 → self.onVariety x → ∀ (v : Fin (n + 1) → k), v ≠ 0 → (∀ p ∈ self.definingPolys, ∀ (i : Fin (n + 1)), (MvPolynomial.eval x) ((MvPolynomial.pderiv i) p) = 0) → False
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The intersection X ∩ V(f) is smooth (relative to X): at every nonzero point of X with
f(x) = 0, some partial derivative of f is nonzero.
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If V(f) is a smooth hypersurface in ℙⁿ, then for any smooth projective subvariety X,
the intersection X ∩ V(f) is smooth.
Bertini's theorem (Thm 22.1, Lec 22) over an algebraically closed field: for a smooth
projective variety X ⊂ ℙⁿ, the generic hyperplane (degree-1 homogeneous polynomial) gives a
smooth section.
Image of a smooth projective variety X ⊂ ℙⁿ under the degree-d Veronese embedding into
ℙ^(C(n+d,d)-1): still a smooth projective subvariety.
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Parameter identification under the Veronese embedding: degree-d hypersurfaces in ℙⁿ
correspond to hyperplanes in the Veronese target, so genericity transfers from one parameter space
to the other.
The image of ℙⁿ under the degree-d Veronese embedding, regarded as a smooth projective
subvariety of ℙ^(C(n+d,d)-1).
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Parameter identification specialized to X = ℙⁿ: generic smoothness of hyperplane sections of
the Veronese image transfers to generic smoothness of degree-d hypersurfaces in ℙⁿ.
For d ≥ 1 and n ≥ 1, the number of degree-d monomials is at least 2, so the Veronese
target projective space has positive dimension (needed to apply Bertini there).
Corollary 28 (a), Lec 22: over an algebraically closed field, the generic degree-d
hypersurface in ℙⁿ is smooth, for any d ≥ 1 and n ≥ 1.
Corollary 28 (b), Lec 22: over an algebraically closed field, for any smooth projective
variety X ⊂ ℙⁿ, the generic degree-d hypersurface cuts X in a smooth subvariety.
Corollary 28 (Lec 22), combined: over an algebraically closed field, generic degree-d
hypersurfaces in ℙⁿ are smooth, and they cut every fixed smooth projective subvariety X in a
smooth subvariety.