Timeline for Deformations and the dual numbers
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| Jul 28, 2010 at 14:31 | comment | added | user5395 | @Scott: thank you for the tip; that makes sense! @everyone else: thank you very much for the various answers! MO is spectacular: five high-quality answers all written within a few hours of my original posting! It's going to be hard to choose a winner... | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 22:50 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | Minor aside: If you're working mod p, it might be necessary to work mod $p^2$ instead of over mod p dual numbers. More generally, one might consider the spectra of artinian local rings as fat points or "spaces of small wiggles". | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 19:11 | answer | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 15:45 | answer | added | Francesco Polizzi | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 15:28 | answer | added | Bill Dubuque | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 15:24 | answer | added | DamienC | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 15:21 | answer | added | Per Vognsen | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 27, 2010 at 15:12 | history | asked | user5395 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |