Let be a homogeneous ideal over an algebraically closed field, and letbe the irrelevant ideal. Then exactly when either or . For a proper homogeneous ideal this is also equivalent to for some .
In the standard graded homogeneous coordinate ring of , the irrelevant ideal isIt vanishes only at the origin of the corresponding affine cone, which does not represent a projective point.
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