 Smoothness of a nonzero homogeneous level set (source code)

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= Smoothness of a nonzero homogeneous level set

Let $f$ be homogeneous of positive degree $d$ over a field whose characteristic does not divide $d$. The <Euler homogeneous function theorem> gives
$$
\sum_i x_i\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_i}=df.
$$
On the level set $f=c\ne0$, the gradient cannot vanish, so $Z(f-c)$ is a smooth hypersurface.

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