\documentclass{lecture} \begin{document} \section{Examples of algebraic varieties} \begin{aufgabe}[] Let $f\colon X \to Y$ be a morphism of algebraic pre-varieties. Assume \begin{enumerate}[(i)] \item $Y$ is a variety. \item There exists an open covering $(Y_i)_{i \in I}$ of $Y$ such that the open subset $f^{-1}(Y_i)$ is a variety. \end{enumerate} Show that $X$ is a variety. \end{aufgabe} \begin{aufgabe}[] Let $X$ be a topological space. Assume that there exists a covering $(X_i)_{i \in I}$ of $X$ by irreducible open subsets such that for all $(i,j)$, $(X_i \cap X_j) \neq \emptyset$. Show that $X$ is irreducible. \end{aufgabe} \subsection{Grassmann varieties} Let $0 \le p \le n$ be integers. The Grassmannian $\text{Gr}(p, n)$ is the set of $p$-dimensional linear subspaces of $k^{n}$. In order to endow this set with a structure of algebraic prevariety, there are various possibilities: \begin{enumerate}[(i)] \item To a $p$-dimensional linear subspace $E \subseteq k^{n}$, we associate the line $\Lambda^{p} E \subseteq \Lambda^{p} k^{n} \simeq k^{\binom{n}{p}}$, which defines a point in the projective space $k\mathbb{P}^{\binom{n}{p}-1}$. Claim: The map $\text{Gr}(p, n) \to k\mathbb{P}^{\binom{n}{p} -1}$ is an injective map whose image is a Zariski-closed subset of $k\mathbb{P}^{\binom{n}{p} -1}$. This identifies $\text{Gr}(n, p)$ canonically to a projective variety. In particular one obtains in this way a structure of \emph{algebraic variety} on $\text{Gr}(p, n)$. \item For the second approach, recall that $\text{GL}(n, k)$ acts transitively on $\text{Gr}(p, n)$. But the identification of $k^{n}$ to $(k^{n})^{*}$ via the canonical basis of $k^{n}$ enables one to define, for all $E \in \text{Gr}(p, n)$, a canonical complement $E^{\perp} \in \text{Gr}(n-p, n)$, i.e. an $(n-p)$-dimensional linear subspace such that $E \oplus E^{\perp} = k^{n}$. So the stabiliser of $E \in \text{Gr}(p, n)$ for the action of $\text{GL}(n, k)$ is conjugate to the subgroup \begin{salign*} \text{P}(p, n) \coloneqq \left\{ g \in \text{GL}(n, k) \middle \vert \begin{array}{l} g = \begin{pmatrix} A & B \\ 0 & C \end{pmatrix} \\ \text{with } A \in \text{GL}(p, k), B \in \text{Mat}(p \times (n-p), k),\\ \text{and } C \in \text{GL}(n-p, k) \end{array} \right\} .\end{salign*} This shows that the Grassmannian $\text{Gr}(p, n)$ is a homogeneous space under $\text{GL}(n, k)$ and that \begin{salign*} \text{Gr}(p, n) \simeq \text{GL}(n, k) / \text{P}(p, n) \end{salign*} which is useful if one knows that, given an affine algebraic group $G$ and a closed subgroup $H$, the homogeneous space $G / H$ is an algebraic variety. We will come back to this later on. \item The third uses the gluing theorem. In particular, it also constructs a standard atlas on $\text{Gr}(p, n)$, like the one we had on $k\mathbb{P}^{n-1} = \text{Gr}(1, n)$. The idea is that, in order to determine a $p$-dimensional subspace of $k^{n}$, it suffices to give a basis of that subspace, which is a family of $p$ vectors in $k^{n}$. Geometrically, this means that the subspace in question is seen as the graph of a linear map $A\colon k^{p} \to k^{n}$. Take $E \in \text{Gr}(p, n)$ and let $(v_1, \ldots, v_p)$ be a basis of $E$ over $k$. Let $M$ be the $(n \times p)$-matrix representing the coordinates of $(v_1, \ldots, v_p)$ in the canonical basis of $k^{n}$. Since $M$ has rank $p$, there exists a $(p \times p)$-submatrix of $M$ with non-zero determinant: We set \begin{salign*} J &\coloneqq \{ \text{indices } j_1 < \ldots < j_p \text{ of the rows of that submatrix}\} \\ M_J &\coloneqq \text{the submatrix in question} .\end{salign*} Note that if $M' \in \text{Mat}(n \times p, k)$ corresponds to a basis $(v_1', \ldots, v_p')$, there exists a matrix $g \in \text{GL}(p, k)$ such that $M' = Mg$. But then $(M')_J = (Mg)_J = M_J g$, so \[ \text{det }(M')_J = \text{det } (M_J g) = \text{det}(M_J) \text{det}(g) ,\] which is non-zero if and only if $\text{det}(M_J)$ is non-zero. As a consequence, given a subset $J \subseteq \{1, \ldots, n\} $ of cardinal $p$, there is a well-defined subset \begin{salign*} G_J \coloneqq \left\{ E \in \text{G}(p, n) \mid \exists M \in \text{Mat}(n \times p, k), E = \text{im }M \text{ and } \text{det}(M_J) \neq 0 \right\} .\end{salign*} Moreover, if $M$ satisfies the conditions $E = \text{im }M$ and $\text{det}(M_J) \neq 0$, then $(M M_J^{-1})_J = I_p$ and $\text{im}(MM^{-1}_J) = \text{im }M = E$. In fact, if $E \in G_J$, there is a unique matrix $N \in \text{Mat}(n \times p, k)$, such that $E = \text{im }N$ and $N_J = I_p$, for if $N_1, N_2$ are two such matrices, the columns of $N_2$ are linear combinations of those of $N_1$, thus $\exists g \in \text{GL}(p, k)$ such that $N_2 = N_1g$. But then \[ I_p = (N_2)_J = (N_1g)_J = (N_1)_J g = g .\] So, there is a well-defined map \begin{salign*} \hat{\varphi}_J: G_J &\longrightarrow \operatorname{Hom}(k^{J}, k^{n}) \\ E &\longmapsto N \text{ such that } E = \text{im }N \text{ and } N_J = I_p \end{salign*} whose image can be identified to the subspace $\text{Hom}(k^{J}, k^{J^{c}})$, where $J^{c}$ is the complement of $J$ in $\{1, \ldots, n\} $, via the map $N \mapsto N_{J^{c}}$. Conversely, a linear map $A \in \text{Hom}(k^{J}, k^{J^{c}})$ determines a rank $p$ map $N \in \text{Hom}(k^{J}, k^{n})$ such that $N_J = I_p$ via the formula $N(x) = x + Ax$. Geometrically, this means that the $p$-dimensional subspace $\text{im }N \subseteq k^{n}$ is equal to the graph of $A$. This also means that we can think of $G_J$ as the set \begin{salign*} \{E \in \text{Gr}(p, n) \mid E \cap k^{J^{c}} = \{0_{k^{n}}\} \} .\end{salign*} The point is that $\text{im } \hat{\varphi}_J = \text{Hom}(k^{J}, k^{J^{c}})$ can be canonically identified with the affine space $k^{p(n-p)}$ and that we have a bijection \begin{salign*} \varphi_J \colon G_J &\xlongrightarrow{\simeq} \text{Hom}(k^{J}, k^{J^{c}}) \simeq k^{p(n-p)} \\ E &\longmapsto A \mid \text{gr}(A) = E \\ \text{gr}(A) &\longmapsfrom A .\end{salign*} Note that the matrix $N \in \text{Mat}(n \times p, k)$ such that $\text{im }N = E$ and $N_J = I_p$ is row-equivalent to $\begin{pmatrix} I_p \\ A \end{pmatrix} $ with $A \in \text{Mat}((n-p) \times p, k)$. Now, if $E \in G_{J_1} \cap G_{J_2}$, then, for all $M \in \text{Mat}(p \times n, k)$ such that $\text{im } M = E$, $\hat{\varphi}_{J_1}(E) = M M_{J_1}^{-1}$ and $\hat{\varphi}_{J_2}(E) = M M_{J_2}^{-1}$. So \begin{salign*} \text{im } \hat{\varphi}_{J_1} &= \left\{ N \in \text{Hom}(k^{J_1}, k^{n}) \mid N_{J_1} = I_p, \text{im } N_{J_1} = E \text{ and } \text{det}(N_{J_2}) \neq 0 \right\} \\ &= \{ N \in \text{im } \hat{\varphi}_{J_1} \mid \text{det}(N_{J_2}) \neq 0\} \end{salign*} which is open in $\text{im } \hat{\varphi}_{J_1} \simeq \text{im } \varphi_{J_1}$. Moreover, for all $N \in \text{im }\hat{\varphi}_{J_1}$, \[ \hat{\varphi}_{J_2} \circ \hat{\varphi}_{J_1}^{-1}(N) = N N_{J_2}^{-1} \] and, by Cramer's formulae, this is a regular function on $\text{im }\hat{\varphi}_{J_1}$. We have therefore constructed a covering \[ \text{Gr}(p, n) = \bigcup_{J \subseteq \{1, \ldots, n\}, \# J = p } G_J \] of the Grassmannian $\text{Gr}(p, n)$ by subsets $G_J$ that can be identified to the affine variety $k^{p(n-p)}$ via bijective maps $\varphi_J\colon G_j \to k^{p(n-p)}$ such that, for all $(J_1, J_2)$, $\varphi_{J_1}(G_{J_1} \cap G_{J_2})$ is open in $k^{p(n-p)}$ and the map $\varphi_{J_2} \circ \varphi_{J_1}^{-1}\colon \varphi_{J_1}(G_{J_1} \cap G_{J_2}) \to \varphi_{J_2}(G_{J_1} \cap G_{J_2})$ is a morphism of affine varieties. By the gluing theorem, this endows $\text{Gr}(p, n)$ with a structure of algebraic prevariety. \end{enumerate} \subsection{Vector bundles} \begin{definition}[] A \emph{vector bundle} is a triple $(E, X, \pi)$ consisting of two algebraic varieties $E$ and $X$, and a morphism $\pi\colon E \to X$ such that \begin{enumerate}[(i)] \item for $x \in X$, $\pi^{-1}(\{x\} )$ is a $k$-vector space. \item for $x \in X$, there exists an open neighbourhood $U$ of $x$ and an isomorphism of algebraic varieties \[ \Phi\colon \pi^{-1}(U) \xlongrightarrow{\simeq} U \times \pi^{-1}(\{x\} ) \] such that \begin{enumerate}[(a)] \item $\text{pr}_1 \circ \Phi = \pi |_{\pi^{-1}(U)}$ and \item for $y \in U$, $\Phi|_{\pi^{-1}(\{y\})}\colon \pi^{-1}(\{y\}) \to \{y\} \times \pi^{-1}(\{x\})$ is an isomorphism of $k$-vector spaces. \end{enumerate} \end{enumerate} A morphism of vector bundles is a morphism of algebraic varieties $f\colon E_1 \to E_2$ such that $\pi_2 \circ f = \pi_1$ and $f$ is $k$-linear in the fibres. \end{definition} \begin{bem} In practice, one often proves that a variety $E$ is a vector bundle over $X$ by finding a morphism $\pi\colon E \to X$ and an open covering \[ X = \bigcup_{i \in I} U_i \] such that $E|_{U_i} \coloneqq \pi^{-1}(U_i)$ is isomorphic to $U_i \times k^{n_i}$ for some integer $n_i$, in such a way that, on $U_i \cap U_j$, the morphism \[ \Phi_j \circ \Phi_i^{-1}\Big|_{\Phi_i(\pi^{-1}(U_i \cap U_j))}\colon (U_i \cap U_j) \times k^{n_i} \longrightarrow (U_i \cap U_j) \times k^{n_j} \] is an isomorphism of algebraic varieties such that the following diagram commutes and $\Phi_j \circ \Phi_i^{-1}$ is linear fibrewise: \[ \begin{tikzcd} (U_i \cap U_j) \times k^{n_i} \arrow{dr}{\text{pr}_1} \arrow{rr}{\Phi_j \circ \Phi_i^{-1}} & & (U_i \cap U_j) \times k^{n_j} \arrow{dl}{\text{pr}_1}\\ & U_i \cap U_j & \\ \end{tikzcd} .\] In particular $k^{n_i} \simeq k^{n_j}$ as $k$-vector spaces, so $n_i = n_j$ if $U_i \cap U_j \neq \emptyset$, and $\Phi_j \circ \Phi_i^{-1}$ is necessarily of the form \[ (x, v) \longmapsto (x, g_{ji}(x) \cdot v) \] for some morphism of algebraic varieties \[ g_{ji}\colon U_i \cap U_j \longrightarrow \text{GL}(n, k) .\] These maps $(g_{ij})_{(i, j) \in I \times I}$ then satisfy for $x \in U_i \cap U_j \cap U_l$ \[ g_{lj}(x) g_{ji}(x) = g_{li}(x) \] and for $x \in U_i$, $g_{ii}(x) = \text{I}_n$. \end{bem} \begin{satz} If $\pi\colon E \to X$ is a morphism of algebraic varieties and $X$ has an open covering $(U_i)_{i \in I}$ over which $E$ admits local trivialisations \[ \Phi_i \colon E|_{U_i} = \pi^{-1}(U_i) \xlongrightarrow{\simeq} U_i \times k^{n} \] with $\text{pr}_1 \circ \Phi_i = \pi|_{\pi^{-1}(U_i)}$ such that the isomorphisms \[ \Phi_j \circ \Phi_i^{-1} \colon (U_i \cap U_j) \times k^{n} \longrightarrow (U_i \cap U_j) \times k^{n} \] are linear in the fibres, then for all $x \in X$, $\pi^{-1}(\{x\})$ has a well-defined structure of $k$-vector space and the local trivialisations $(\Phi_i)_{i \in I}$ are linear in the fibres. In particular, $E$ is a vector bundle. \end{satz} \begin{proof} For $x \in U_i$ and $a, b \in \pi^{-1}(\{x\})$, let \[ a + \lambda b \coloneqq \Phi_i^{-1}(x, \text{pr}_2 (\Phi_i(a)) + \lambda \text{pr}_2 (\Phi_i(b))) .\] By using the linearity in the fibres of $\Phi_j \circ \Phi_i^{-1}$, one verifies that this does not depend on the choice of $i \in I$. \end{proof} \begin{bem}[] Assume given an algebraic prevariety $X$ obtained by gluing affine varieties $(X_i)_{i \in I}$ along isomorphisms $\varphi_{ji}\colon X_{ij} \xrightarrow{\simeq} X_{ji}$ defined on open subsets $X_{ij} \subseteq X_i$, such that $X_{ii} = X_i$, $\varphi_{ii} = \text{Id}_{X_i}$ %, $\varphi_{ji}(X_{ij})$ is open in $X_{ji}$ and $\varphi_{lj} \circ \varphi_{ji} = \varphi_{li}$ on $X_{ij} \cap X_{il} \subseteq X_i$. Recall that such an $X$ comes equipped with a canonical map $p \colon \bigsqcup_{i \in I} \to X$ such that $p_i \coloneqq p|_{X_i}\colon X_i \to X$ is an isomorphism onto an affine open subset $U_i \coloneqq p_i(X_i) \subseteq X$ and, if we set $\varphi_i = p_i^{-1}$, we have $\varphi_j \circ \varphi_i^{-1} = \varphi_{ji}$ on $\varphi_i(U_i \cap U_j)$. Let us now consider the vector bundle $X_i \times k^{n}$ on each of the affine varieties $X_i$ and assume that an isomorphism of algebraic prevarieties of the form \begin{salign*} \Phi_{ji}\colon X_{ij} \times k^{n} &\longrightarrow X_{ji} \times k^{n} \\ (x, v) &\longmapsto (\varphi_{ji}(x), h_{ji}(x) \cdot v) \end{salign*} has been given, where $h_{ij}\colon X_{ij} \to \text{GL}(n, k)$ is a morphism of algebraic varieties, in such a way that the following compatibility conditions are satisfied: \begin{salign*} \Phi_{ii} = \text{Id}_{X_{ii} \times k^{n}} \end{salign*} and, for all $(i, j, l)$ and all $(x, v) \in (X_{ij} \cap X_{il}) \times k^{n}$ \[ \Phi_{lj} \circ \Phi_{ji}(x, v) = \Phi_{li}(x, v) .\] Then there is associated to this gluing data an algebraic vector bundle $\pi\colon E \to X$, endowed with local trivialisations $\Phi_i \colon E|_{U_i} \xrightarrow{\simeq} U_i \times k^{n}$, where as earlier $U_i = p(X_i) \subseteq X$, in such a way that, for all $(i, j)$ and all $(\xi, v) \in (U_i \cap U_j) \times k^{n}$, \[ \Phi_j \circ \Phi_i^{-1}(\xi, v) = (\xi, g_{ji}(\xi) \cdot v) \] where $g_{ji}(x) = h_{ji}(\varphi_i(\xi)) \in \text{GL}(n, k)$, so $g_{ii} = \text{I}_n$ on $U_i$, and, for all $(i, j, l)$ and all $\xi \in U_i \cap U_j \cap U_l$, \begin{salign*} g_{lj}(\xi) g_{ji}(\xi) &= h_{lj}(\varphi_j(\xi)) h_{ji}(\varphi_i(\xi)) \\ &= h_{lj}(\varphi_{ji}(\varphi_i(\xi))) h_{ji}(\varphi_i(\xi)) \\ &= h_{li}(\varphi_i(\xi)) \\ &= g_{li}(\xi) .\end{salign*} Indeed, we can simply set \begin{salign*} E \coloneqq \left( \bigsqcup_{i \in I} X_i \times k^{n} \right) / \sim \end{salign*} where $(x, v) \sim (\varphi_{ji}(x), h_{ji}(x) \cdot v)$, and, by the gluing theorem, this defines an algebraic prevariety, equipped with a morphism $\pi\colon E \to X$ induced by the first projection $\text{pr}_1\colon \bigsqcup_{i \in I} (X_i \times k^{n}) \to \bigsqcup_{i \in I} X_i$. The canonical map $\hat{p}\colon \bigsqcup_{ i \in I} (X_i \times k^{n}) \to E$ makes the following diagram commute \[ \begin{tikzcd} \bigsqcup_{i \in I} (X_i \times k^{n}) \arrow{d}{\text{pr}_1} \arrow{r}{\hat{p}} & E \arrow{d}{\pi} \\ \bigsqcup_{i \in I} X_i \arrow{r}{p} & X \\ \end{tikzcd} \] and it induces an isomorphism of prevarieties \[ \hat{p}|_{X_i \times k^{n}}\colon X_i \times k^{n} \xrightarrow{\simeq} E|_{p(X_i)} = \pi^{-1}(p(X_i)) \] such that $\pi \circ \hat{p}|_{X_i \times k^{n}} = p|_{X_i} \circ \text{pr}_1$. Since $p|_{X_i}$ is an isomorphism between $X_i$ and the open subset $U_i = p(X_i) \subseteq X$ with inverse $\varphi_i$, the isomorphism $\hat{p}|_{X_i \times k^{n}}$ induces a local trivialisation \begin{salign*} \Phi_i \colon E|_{U_i} &\longrightarrow U_i \times k^{n} \\ w &\longmapsto (\pi(w), v) \end{salign*} where $v$ is defined as above by $\hat{p}(x, v) = w$. Note that $p(x) = \pi(w)$ in this case, and that $\pi^{-1}(\{\pi(w)\}) \simeq k^{n}$ via $\Phi|_{\pi^{-1}(\{\pi(w)\})}$. As the isomorphism of algebraic prevarieties \[ \Phi_j \circ \Phi_i^{-1}\colon (U_i \cap U_j) \times k^{n} \longrightarrow (U_i \cap U_j) \times k^{n} \] thus defined is clearly linear fibrewise, we have indeed constructed in this way a vector bundle $\pi\colon E \to X$, at least in the category of algebraic prevarieties. Note that if the prevariety $X$ obtained via the gluing of the $X_i$ is a variety, then we can show that $E$ is actually a variety (because the product variety $U_i \times k^{n}$ is separated). The rest of the verifications, in particular the fact that for all $(\xi, v) \in U_i \cap U_j \times k^{n}$ \[ \Phi_j \circ \Phi_i^{-1}(\xi, v) = (\xi, h_{ji}(\varphi_i(\xi)) \cdot v) \] is left to the reader. \end{bem} \begin{aufgabe}[] Consider the set \[ E \coloneqq \{ (\rho, v) \in k \mathbb{P}^{1} \times k\mathbb{P}^{2} \mid v \in \rho\} \] and the canonical map $\pi\colon E \to k\mathbb{P}^{1}$. Show that $E$ is a vector bundle on $k\mathbb{P}^{1}$ and compute its ,,cocycle of transition functions`` $g_{10}$ on the standard atlas $(U_0, U_1)$ of $k\mathbb{P}^{1}$ with \begin{salign*} \varphi_{10}\colon k \setminus \{0\} &\longrightarrow k \setminus \{0\} \\ t &\longmapsto \frac{1}{t} .\end{salign*} \end{aufgabe} \end{document}