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Atlas.AlgebraicGeometryI.code.SmoothSubvarietyCriterion

def HasLinearlyIndependentDifferentials (R : Type u) (A : Type v) (B : Type w) [CommRing R] [CommRing A] [CommRing B] [Algebra R A] [Algebra A B] [Algebra R B] [IsScalarTower R A B] :

Predicate asserting that the canonical map from the cotangent module of the kernel I = ker(A → B) to B ⊗_A Ω[A/R] has a left inverse, i.e. that the differentials of generators of I are linearly independent in B ⊗_A Ω[A/R].

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    Formally-smooth version of the smooth subvariety criterion: assuming A is formally smooth over R and A → B is surjective, B is formally smooth over R iff the defining ideal has linearly independent differentials.

    Smooth subvariety criterion (Cor 25, Lec 20): if A is smooth over R and A → B is surjective with finitely generated kernel, then B is smooth over R iff the kernel has linearly independent differentials, i.e. iff the subvariety is locally defined by independent differentials.