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Dear anonymous,

Here is an expansion of what Georges said in the comment. I will assume, as you wrote, that you are a beginner in AG but not in math. And please do not feel too bad about diverietti's comment, for this site to function well we do need to keep a certain standard. That's why it is a good idea to use your real name and state your background. People here would be a lot more accommodating if they know exactly where you come from.

As Georges wrote, normality is equivalent to two technical conditions: $R_1$ and $S_2$.

$R_1$ means ``regular in codimension one". In the case of your interest, which is a hypersurface $f \in \mathbb A^n$, it can be checked easily (I will assume you work over $\mathbb C$). Just take the ideal $J$ generated by all the partial derivatives of $f$ and let $d$ be the dimension of $\mathbb C[x_1,\cdots, x_n]/J$. As long as $n-d-1\geq 2$, your hypersurface will be $R_1$. In your particular case, $J = (x_1,\cdots, x_n)$ and $d=0$, so as long as $n\geq 3$ you will be OK. But this procedures works for any hypersurface, for example $x^3+y^5+z^7$.

The second condition $S_2$ is also known as ``Serre condition $S_2$". It is more technical to explain, and can actually be hard to check in general, but in this case, you are again in luck. Any hypersurface in $\mathbb A^n$ (for any $n$!) satisfies it.

So, in summary, you are OK your quadric hypersurface is normal as long as $n\geq 3$, but hopefully what I wrote will be helpful in other cases you might be interested in.

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Dear anonymous,

Here is an expansion of what Georges said in the comment. I will assume, as you wrote, that you are a beginner in AG but not in math. And please do not feel too bad about diverietti's comment, for this site to function well we do need to keep a certain standard. That's why it is a good idea to use your real name and state your background. People here would be a lot more accommodating if they know exactly where you come from.

As Georges wrote, normality is equivalent to two technical conditions: $R_1$ and $S_2$.

$R_1$ means ``regular in codimension one". In the case of your interest, which is a hypersurface $f \in \mathbb A^n$, it can be checked easily (I will assume you work over $\mathbb C$). Just take the ideal $J$ generated by all the partial derivatives of $f$ and let $d$ be the dimension of $\mathbb C[x_1,\cdots, x_n]/J$. As long as $n-d-1\geq 2$, your hypersurface will be $R_1$. In your particular case, $J = (x_1,\cdots, x_n)$ and $d=0$, so as long as $n\geq 3$ you will be OK. But this procedures works for any hypersurface, for example $x^3+y^5+z^7$.

The second condition $S_2$ is also known as called ``Serre condition $S_2$". It is more technical to explain, and can actually be hard to check in general, but in this case, you are again in luck. Any hypersurface in $\mathbb A^n$ (for any $n$!) satisfies it.

So, in summary, you are OK as long as $n\geq 3$, but hopefully what I wrote will be helpful in other cases you might be interested in.

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Dear anonymous,

Here is an expansion of what Georges said in the comment. I will assume, as you wrote, that you are a beginner in AG but not in math. And please do not feel too bad about diverietti's comment, for this site to function well we do need to keep a certain standard. That's why it is a good idea to use your real name and state your background. People here would be a lot more accommodating if they know exactly where you come from.

As Georges wrote, normality is equivalent to two technical conditions: $R_1$ and $S_2$.

$R_1$ means ``regular in codimension one". In the case of your interest, which is a hypersurface $f \in \mathbb A^n$, it can be checked easily (I will assume you work over $\mathbb C$). Just take the ideal $J$ generated by all the partial derivatives of $f$ and let $d$ be the dimension of $\mathbb C[x_1,\cdots, x_n]/J$. As long as $n-d-1\geq 2$, your hypersurface will be $R_1$. In your particular case, $J = (x_1,\cdots, x_n)$ and $d=0$, so as long as $n\geq 3$ you will be OK. But this procedures works for any hypersurface, for example $x^3+y^5+z^7$.

The second condition $S_2$ is also known as called ``Serre condition $S_2$". It is more technical to explain, and can actually be hard to check in general, but in this case, you are again in luck. Any hypersurface in $\mathbb A^n$ (for any $n$!) satisfies it.

So, in summary, you are OK as long as $n\geq 3$, but hopefully what I wrote will be helpful in other cases you might be interested in.