A rational-function-field model for a plane curve #
The first coordinate of an irreducible plane curve with nonzero second
partial derivative is separating and transcendental. This file uses that
coordinate to put the function field over the standard field K(X). It
then transports finiteness, separability, and the exact extension degree from
the intrinsic first-coordinate subfield.
This is the model required by the exhaustive finite-plus-infinity divisor
formalization: its base is literally RatFunc K, and X specializes to the
first coordinate function.
The RatFunc K-algebra structure obtained by specializing X at the
first coordinate of the plane curve.
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The plane-curve function field is finite over the standard rational
function field when X is specialized to the first coordinate.
The same change of base transports separability.
The extension degree over K(X) is exactly the degree of the equation in
the second coordinate.
The symmetric second-coordinate model #
The RatFunc K-algebra structure obtained by specializing X at the
second coordinate of the plane curve.
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The second-coordinate specialization also makes the plane-curve function field finite over the standard rational-function field.
The second-coordinate change of base transports separability.
In the second-coordinate model the extension degree is exactly the degree of the equation in the first coordinate.