For any affine variety and point , with , the standard localization description is
Also for a principal open subset. One way to see the latter is to realize as the affine variety ; its coordinate ring is and part (d) applies.
For this cusp use , identifying with inside . The parametrization gives exactly the relation ; its kernel is generated by this binomial. For example reduce a polynomial modulo to ; substitution has even powers from and odd powers at least three from , so it can vanish only when both polynomials are zero.
Write . The open set corresponds to , and
To simplify this ring without assuming the normalization coordinate is present, observe that in
Thus becomes a unit after inverting , with inverse . Consequently belongs to the localization. Since is a unit, both and become units. Conversely every original generator lies in the corresponding two-point localization of . Hence
Finally corresponds to . It lies outside , so compute its local ring from , at . The element is a unit there, hence belongs to . Every polynomial in nonzero at one is then a unit. Conversely a denominator from remains nonzero at . These inclusions prove
This smooth point has the ordinary one-variable local ring, even though the global curve has a cusp at its origin.