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Blowup of the affine plane at the origin

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The blowup of A2 at the origin is
Bl0​A2={((X,Y),[W:Z]):XZ=WY}⊆A2×P1.
(1)
Its projection to A2 is an isomorphism away from the origin, while the fiber above the origin is the exceptional curve P1.

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