Bases for the Prime Ideals Associated with Certain Classes of Algebraic Varieties
- 1 March 1943
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- Vol. 39 (1) , 35-48
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100017655
Abstract
The fact that the prime ideal associated with a given irreducible algebraic variety has a finite basis is a pure existence theorem. Only in a few isolated particular cases has the base for the ideal been found, and there appears to be no general method for determining the base which can be carried out in practice. Hilbert, who initiated the theory, proved that the prime ideal defining the ordinary twisted cubic curve has a base consisting of three quadrics, and contributions to the ideal theory of algebraic varieties have been made by König, Lasker, Macaulay and, more recently, by Zariski. A good summary, from the viewpoint of a geometer, is given by Bertini [(1), Chapter XII]. However, the tendency has been towards the development of the pure theory. In the following paper we actually find the bases for the prime ideals associated with certain classes of algebraic varieties. The paper falls into two parts. In Part I there is proved a theorem (the Principal Theorem) of wide generality, and then examples are given of some classes of varieties satisfying the conditions of the theorem. In Part II we find the base for the prime ideals associated with Veronesean varieties and varieties of Segre. The latter are particularly interesting since they represent (1, 1),without exception,the points of a multiply-projective space.Keywords
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