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ambientVariety -- the ambient variety of a projective subvariety

Synopsis

Description

i1 : X = point PP_(ZZ/65521)^3;

o1 : ProjectiveVariety, a point in PP^3
i2 : Y = random({1},X);

o2 : ProjectiveVariety, surface in PP^3
i3 : X % Y

o3 = X

o3 : ProjectiveVariety, a point in PP^3 (subvariety of codimension 2 in Y)
i4 : ambientVariety X

o4 = Y

o4 : ProjectiveVariety, surface in PP^3
i5 : ambient X

o5 = PP^3

o5 : ProjectiveVariety, PP^3

See also

Ways to use ambientVariety :

For the programmer

The object ambientVariety is a method function.