Zariski tangent space of a Hilbert scheme

ID: zariski-tangent-space-of-a-hilbert-scheme

For a closed subscheme with ideal sheaf , one has . Locally a flat deformation ideal satisfies . Lifting to gives a well-defined map killing . Conversely the graph condition defines an ideal with flat quotient by the flatness criterion over dual numbers. These operations commute with restriction and are inverse, giving the global identification without a smoothness assumption.

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