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Algebraic varieties are homeomorphic to varieties defined over number fields

Algebraic Geometry 2019-12-03 v2

Abstract

We show that every affine or projective algebraic variety defined over the field of real or complex numbers is homeomorphic to a variety defined over the field of algebraic numbers. We construct such a homeomorphism by choosing a small deformation of the coefficients of the original equations. This method is based on the properties of Zariski equisingular families of varieties. Moreover we construct an algorithm, that, given a system of equations defining a variety VV, produces a system of equations with algebraic coefficients of a variety homeomorphic to VV

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@article{arxiv.1810.00808,
  title  = {Algebraic varieties are homeomorphic to varieties defined over number fields},
  author = {Adam Parusinski and Guillaume Rond},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00808},
  year   = {2019}
}

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16 pages - to appear in Comment. Math. Helv

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