Simultaneous avoidance of the top homogeneous form, a tangent hyperplane, and a chosen coordinate hyperplane, by a direction over the base field.
theorem
CCDN.exists_good_hypersurface_direction_with_coordinate
{K : Type u_1}
{σ : Type u_2}
[Field K]
[Infinite K]
[Fintype σ]
(f : MvPolynomial σ K)
(hf : f ≠ 0)
(z : σ → K)
(j : σ)
(hj : (MvPolynomial.eval z) ((MvPolynomial.pderiv j) f) ≠ 0)
(k : σ)
:
∃ (b : σ → K),
b k ≠ 0 ∧ (MvPolynomial.eval b) ((MvPolynomial.homogeneousComponent f.totalDegree) f) ≠ 0 ∧ ∑ i : σ, (MvPolynomial.eval z) ((MvPolynomial.pderiv i) f) * b i ≠ 0
Over an infinite field, a smooth point admits a direction with nonzero leading form, nonzero directional derivative, and nonzero selected coordinate.