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Formally, a rational map: between two varieties is an equivalence class of pairs (,) in which is a morphism of varieties from a non-empty open set to , and two such pairs (,) and (′ ′, ′) are considered equivalent if and ′ ′ coincide on the intersection ′ (this is, in particular, vacuously true if the intersection is empty, but since is assumed irreducible, this is impossible).
If X is a smooth complete curve (for example, P 1) and if f is a rational map from X to a projective space P m, then f is a regular map X → P m. [5] In particular, when X is a smooth complete curve, any rational function on X may be viewed as a morphism X → P 1 and, conversely, such a morphism as a rational function on X.
A birational map from X to Y is a rational map f : X ⇢ Y such that there is a rational map Y ⇢ X inverse to f.A birational map induces an isomorphism from a nonempty open subset of X to a nonempty open subset of Y, and vice versa: an isomorphism between nonempty open subsets of X, Y by definition gives a birational map f : X ⇢ Y.
Quotient surfaces, surfaces that are constructed as the orbit space of some other surface by the action of a finite group; examples include Kummer, Godeaux, Hopf, and Inoue surfaces; Zariski surfaces, surfaces in finite characteristic that admit a purely inseparable dominant rational map from the projective plane
The domain of a rational function f is not V but the complement of the subvariety (a hypersurface) where the denominator of f vanishes. As with regular maps, one may define a rational map from a variety V to a variety V'. As with the regular maps, the rational maps from V to V' may be identified to the field homomorphisms from k(V') to k(V).
For example, if : is a dominant rational map between smooth projective varieties of the same dimension, then the pullback of a big line bundle on Y is big on X. (At first sight, the pullback is only a line bundle on the open subset of X where f is a morphism, but this extends uniquely to a line bundle on all of X .)
Lüroth's problem concerns subextensions L of K(X), the rational functions in the single indeterminate X. Any such field is either equal to K or is also rational, i.e. L = K(F) for some rational function F. In geometrical terms this states that a non-constant rational map from the projective line to a curve C can only occur when C also has genus 0.
In mathematics, in the representation theory of algebraic groups, a linear representation of an algebraic group is said to be rational if, viewed as a map from the group to the general linear group, it is a rational map of algebraic varieties. Finite direct sums and products of rational representations are rational.