Morphisms from projective space to smaller projective space are constant

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A nonconstant morphism with would have a positive-dimensional fiber of a morphism by the fiber dimension theorem. A target hyperplane avoiding its image point meets the positive-dimensional projective image, so its pullback is a nonempty divisor in disjoint from that fibre. Every positive-dimensional projective subvariety meets every hypersurface: on its affine cone, a homogeneous equation cuts a positive-dimensional zero set containing a nonzero cone point. This contradiction proves constancy.

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