 Tangent spaces of a product of two nodal line pairs (source code)

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= Tangent spaces of a product of two nodal line pairs

For
$$
X=Z(x_1^2-x_2^2,x_3^2-x_4^2)\subset\mathbb A^4
$$
in characteristic other than two,
$$
T_PX=\{v:x_1v_1-x_2v_2=0,\ x_3v_3-x_4v_4=0\}.
$$
The variety has dimension two. Its tangent dimension is two when both coordinate pairs are nonzero, three when exactly one pair vanishes, and four at the origin.

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