Timeline for Smoothness of Symmetric Powers
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| Jan 1, 2010 at 20:00 | vote | accept | Charles Siegel | ||
| Jan 1, 2010 at 19:56 | comment | added | VA. | I misunderstood question 2. I will fix the solution. The previous version proved that $X$ singular implies $Sym^n X$ singular (which is trivial of course). | |
| Jan 1, 2010 at 19:55 | history | edited | VA. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 1, 2010 at 17:08 | comment | added | Charles Siegel | So then after using completions (always forget about those...need to work on that) it reduces to affine space, and then symmetric polynomials prove the first claim for the affine line over any field. Now, for the second, you're taking the points to all be distinct, but what about on the diagonals? | |
| Jan 1, 2010 at 4:29 | history | edited | VA. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 1, 2010 at 4:11 | history | answered | VA. | CC BY-SA 2.5 |