The prime affine-chart ideal and the transport of projective points and Hilbert degree to that ideal.
Let q embed the coordinate ring of I into a field with q X₀ ≠ 0. A homogeneous
polynomial f lies in I if and only if its dehomogenization affineChart n f lies in the
kernel of the coordinate-ratio map projectiveChartCoordinateMap I q.
Let q embed the coordinate ring of I into a field with q X₀ ≠ 0. A polynomial f of
total degree at most M lies in the kernel of the coordinate-ratio map
projectiveChartCoordinateMap I q if and only if its degree-M homogenization lies in I.
The ideal of the standard affine chart X₀ ≠ 0 of the projective variety cut out by a
homogeneous prime ideal I: the polynomials in the affine coordinates vanishing at the ratios
Xⱼ / X₀ in the fraction field of the coordinate ring of I.
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If a prime ideal I not containing X 0 defines a projective curve of degree d, then its
standard affine chart ideal defines an affine curve of degree d.
If a projective point x on the zero locus of a prime ideal I (with X 0 ∉ I) has
nonzero first coordinate, then its affine coordinates lie on the zero locus of the standard
affine chart ideal of I.