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Algebraic varieties, stacks, sheaves, schemes, moduli spaces, complex geometry, quantum cohomology.

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What is the Zariski closure of a locally closed set, when "locally" means the Euclidean topo...

This answer is distilled from the comments by Jérémy Blanc, François Brunault and xuhan. The guess that $X$ is the Zariski closure of $X \cap U$, if the latter is nonempty, is false in general. As a …
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What is the Zariski closure of a locally closed set, when "locally" means the Euclidean topo...

Let $X \subseteq \mathbf{R}^n$ be Zariski closed and absolutely irreducible, and let $U \subseteq \mathbf{R}^n$ be Euclidean open. My guess is that $X$ is the Zariski closure of $X \cap U$, if the lat …
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