Irreducible variety

ID: irreducible-variety

Irreducible variety by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
An algebraic variety whose underlying topological space with its Zariski topology is an irreducible topological space: it is nonempty and cannot be a union of two proper closed subsets. For a reduced affine variety, this is equivalent to its coordinate ring being an integral domain.

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