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Jet and prolongation spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2010

Rahim Moosa
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Department of Pure Mathematics, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada, (rmoosa@math.uwaterloo.ca)
Thomas Scanlon
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Mathematics, Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3480, USA, (scanlon@math.berkeley.edu)

Abstract

The notion of a prolongation of an algebraic variety is developed in an abstract setting that generalizes the difference and (Hasse) differential contexts. An interpolating map that compares these prolongation spaces with algebraic jet spaces is introduced and studied.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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