Deformations for complex space germs - MathOverflow most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-06-20T05:27:38Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/19104 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/19104/deformations-for-complex-space-germs Deformations for complex space germs Michele Torielli 2010-03-23T10:59:54Z 2010-03-23T15:08:22Z <p>Is there a space such that it doesn't have any deformation but its space of first order infinitesimal deformations is non trivial?</p> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/19104/deformations-for-complex-space-germs/19113#19113 Answer by David Speyer for Deformations for complex space germs David Speyer 2010-03-23T15:08:22Z 2010-03-23T15:08:22Z <p>Such germs of spaces exist. See Section 7.6 of Ravi Vakil's paper <em><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411469" rel="nofollow">Murphy's law in Algebraic Geometry</a></em>.</p>