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Surjective morphisms from affine space to its Zariski open subsets

Algebraic Geometry 2023-08-22 v2 Complex Variables

Abstract

We prove constructively the existence of surjective morphisms from affine space onto certain open subvarieties of affine space of the same dimension. For any algebraic set ZAn2AnZ\subset \mathbb{A}^{n-2}\subset \mathbb{A}^{n}, we construct an endomorphism of An\mathbb{A}^{n} with AnZ\mathbb{A}^{n} \setminus Z as its image. By Noether's normalization lemma, these results extend to give surjective maps from any nn-dimensional affine variety XX to AnZ\mathbb{A}^{n} \setminus Z.

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@article{arxiv.2302.11470,
  title  = {Surjective morphisms from affine space to its Zariski open subsets},
  author = {Viktor Balch Barth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11470},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages. v2, typos corrected. Accepted for publication in IJM

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