A seminormal scheme is a scheme whose affine coordinate rings are seminormal. A ring is seminormal when, for
with
, there is a unique
satisfying
and
. This property is local and
implies that the scheme is reduced (Stacks Project). For
example,
is not seminormal, since
and
require
, which does not belong to this
ring. Seminormality is one of the hypotheses on the underlying scheme
of a semi-log canonical pair.
Seminormal Scheme
See also
Algebraic Normalization, Scheme, Semi-Log Canonical PairExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Stacks Project. "Absolute Weak Normalization and Seminormalization." Tag 0EUK. https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/tag/0EUK.Cite this as:
Weisstein, Eric W. "Seminormal Scheme." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SeminormalScheme.html