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AffineVariety -- the class of all affine varieties

Description

To create an affine variety, use Spec.

i1 : Spec(QQ[x,y])

o1 = Spec(QQ [x, y])

o1 : AffineVariety

Functions and methods returning an affine variety :

AffineVariety * AffineVariety, see * -- a binary operator, usually used for multiplication
AffineVariety ** Ring, see ** -- a binary operator, usually used for tensor product or Cartesian product
Spec(Ring) -- make an affine variety

Methods that use an affine variety :

ambient(AffineVariety)
char(AffineVariety) -- missing documentation
dim(AffineVariety) -- dimension of the affine variety
singularLocus(AffineVariety), see singularLocus -- singular locus

For the programmer

The object AffineVariety is a type, with ancestor classes Variety < MutableHashTable < HashTable < Thing.