Hi all: I have a geometry question. Given an ALGEBRAIC variety V in CC^n defined by a single polynomial and given a point p in V, how do you compute the number of (distinct) irreducible ANALYTIC components of V passing through p?
For example, let f = y^2 -x^2*(1 +x). Then the variety V(f) has two irreducible analytic components passing through (0,0), one for each factor of the decomposition f = (y -x*sqrt(1+x)) *(y +x*sqrt(1+x)) in CC{x,y}, the ring of power series convergent in a neighborhood of (0,0). Alex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---