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<span id="openzim-page-title" class="mw-page-title-main"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Regular embedding</span></span>
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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="Regular_scheme" title="Regular scheme">regular scheme</a>.</div>
<p>In <a href="Algebraic_geometry" title="Algebraic geometry">algebraic geometry</a>, a <a href="Closed_immersion" title="Closed immersion">closed immersion</a> <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle i:X\hookrightarrow Y}">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples_and_usage">Examples and usage</h2></div>
<p>For example, if <i>X</i> and <i>Y</i> are <a href="Smooth_morphism" title="Smooth morphism">smooth</a> over a scheme <i>S</i> and if <i>i</i> is an <i>S</i>-morphism, then <i>i</i> is a regular embedding. In particular, every section of a smooth morphism is a regular embedding.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \operatorname {Spec} B}">
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</p><p>The notion is used, for instance, in an essential way in Fulton's approach to <a href="Intersection_theory" title="Intersection theory">intersection theory</a>. The important fact is that when <i>i</i> is a regular embedding, if <i>I</i> is the ideal sheaf of <i>X</i> in <i>Y</i>, then the <a href="Normal_sheaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Normal sheaf">normal sheaf</a>, the dual of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle I/I^{2}}">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-examples">Non-examples</h3></div>
<p>One non-example is a scheme which isn't equidimensional. For example, the scheme
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<dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle X={\text{Spec}}\left({\frac {\mathbb {C} [x,y,z]}{(xz,yz)}}\right)}">
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<p>is the union of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \mathbb {A} ^{2}}">
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<p>A morphism of finite type <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f:X\to Y}">
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</math></span><img src="./01c095f316b67aa02efd24a35f073becc0872d60.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:9.991ex; height:3.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle U{\overset {j}{\to }}V{\overset {g}{\to }}Y}" loading="lazy"></span> where <i>j</i> is a regular embedding and <i>g</i> is <a href="Smooth_morphism" title="Smooth morphism">smooth</a>.
<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
For example, if <i>f</i> is a morphism between <a href="Smooth_variety" class="mw-redirect" title="Smooth variety">smooth varieties</a>, then <i>f</i> factors as <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle X\to X\times Y\to Y}">
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<mi>Y</mi>
<mo stretchy="false">→<!-- → --></mo>
<mi>Y</mi>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle X\to X\times Y\to Y}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./903a23d38192714499567879c0e8b3bc4a4914cc.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:17.575ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle X\to X\times Y\to Y}" loading="lazy"></span> where the first map is the <a href="Graph_morphism_(algebraic_geometry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Graph morphism (algebraic geometry)">graph morphism</a> and so is a complete intersection morphism. Notice that this definition is compatible with the one in EGA IV for the special case of <a href="Flat_morphism" title="Flat morphism">flat morphisms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Let <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f:X\to Y}">
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<mi>Y</mi>
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</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle f:X\to Y}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./abd1e080abef4bbdab67b43819c6431e7561361c.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:10.583ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle f:X\to Y}" loading="lazy"></span> be a local-complete-intersection morphism that admits a global factorization: it is a composition <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle X{\overset {i}{\hookrightarrow }}P{\overset {p}{\to }}Y}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>X</mi>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
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<mo stretchy="false">↪<!-- ↪ --></mo>
<mi>i</mi>
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<mi>P</mi>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
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<mo stretchy="false">→<!-- → --></mo>
<mi>p</mi>
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<mi>Y</mi>
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</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle X{\overset {i}{\hookrightarrow }}P{\overset {p}{\to }}Y}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./c47b4a9db5ede63806dc778a1bffa06e90ae4d12.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:10.439ex; height:3.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle X{\overset {i}{\hookrightarrow }}P{\overset {p}{\to }}Y}" loading="lazy"></span> where <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle i}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>i</mi>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle i}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./add78d8608ad86e54951b8c8bd6c8d8416533d20.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:0.802ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle i}" loading="lazy"></span> is a regular embedding and <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle p}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>p</mi>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle p}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./81eac1e205430d1f40810df36a0edffdc367af36.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; margin-left: -0.089ex; width:1.259ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle p}" loading="lazy"></span> a smooth morphism. Then the <b>virtual tangent bundle</b> is an element of the <a href="Grothendieck_group" title="Grothendieck group">Grothendieck group</a> of vector bundles on <i>X</i> given as:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p>
<dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle T_{f}=[i^{*}T_{P/Y}]-[N_{X/P}]}">
<semantics>
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<msub>
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<mi>i</mi>
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<mo>−<!-- − --></mo>
<mo stretchy="false">[</mo>
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<mi>N</mi>
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<mi>X</mi>
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<mo stretchy="false">]</mo>
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</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle T_{f}=[i^{*}T_{P/Y}]-[N_{X/P}]}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./504ce0d6ddf24f2633f5e4afa7847e71217a900e.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.171ex; width:23.331ex; height:3.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle T_{f}=[i^{*}T_{P/Y}]-[N_{X/P}]}" loading="lazy"></span>,</dd></dl>
<p>where <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle T_{P/Y}=\Omega _{P/Y}^{\vee }}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<msub>
<mi>T</mi>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mi>P</mi>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mo>/</mo>
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<mi>Y</mi>
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<mo>=</mo>
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<mi mathvariant="normal">Ω<!-- Ω --></mi>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mi>P</mi>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mo>/</mo>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle T_{P/Y}=\Omega _{P/Y}^{\vee }}</annotation>
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</math></span><img src="./7ccdaa9db45f86e5041dedaf2abcbe35aa661541.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.505ex; width:13.219ex; height:3.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle T_{P/Y}=\Omega _{P/Y}^{\vee }}" loading="lazy"></span> is the relative tangent sheaf of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle p}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>p</mi>
</mstyle>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle p}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./81eac1e205430d1f40810df36a0edffdc367af36.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; margin-left: -0.089ex; width:1.259ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle p}" loading="lazy"></span>
(which is <a href="Locally_free_sheaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Locally free sheaf">locally free</a> since <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle p}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>p</mi>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle p}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./81eac1e205430d1f40810df36a0edffdc367af36.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; margin-left: -0.089ex; width:1.259ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle p}" loading="lazy"></span> is smooth)
and <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle N}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>N</mi>
</mstyle>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle N}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./f5e3890c981ae85503089652feb48b191b57aae3.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:2.064ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle N}" loading="lazy"></span> is the normal sheaf <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle ({\mathcal {I}}/{\mathcal {I}}^{2})^{\vee }}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mo stretchy="false">(</mo>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mi class="MJX-tex-caligraphic" mathvariant="script">I</mi>
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<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mo>/</mo>
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<msup>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mi class="MJX-tex-caligraphic" mathvariant="script">I</mi>
</mrow>
</mrow>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mn>2</mn>
</mrow>
</msup>
<msup>
<mo stretchy="false">)</mo>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mo>∨<!-- ∨ --></mo>
</mrow>
</msup>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle ({\mathcal {I}}/{\mathcal {I}}^{2})^{\vee }}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./1ee69d6ca692b68cc811185e48af79d96d1d5b0f.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:8.407ex; height:3.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle ({\mathcal {I}}/{\mathcal {I}}^{2})^{\vee }}" loading="lazy"></span>
(where <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\mathcal {I}}}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mi class="MJX-tex-caligraphic" mathvariant="script">I</mi>
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</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\mathcal {I}}}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./0e9730a0ada0426927ff64141eb9f505eca132d4.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; margin-left: -0.069ex; width:1.561ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\mathcal {I}}}" loading="lazy"></span> is the ideal sheaf of <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle X}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>X</mi>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle X}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./68baa052181f707c662844a465bfeeb135e82bab.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.98ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle X}" loading="lazy"></span> in <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle P}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>P</mi>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle P}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./b4dc73bf40314945ff376bd363916a738548d40a.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.745ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle P}" loading="lazy"></span>), which is locally free since
<span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle i}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>i</mi>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle i}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./add78d8608ad86e54951b8c8bd6c8d8416533d20.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:0.802ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle i}" loading="lazy"></span> is a regular embedding.
</p><p>More generally,
if <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f\colon X\rightarrow Y}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>f</mi>
<mo>:<!-- : --></mo>
<mi>X</mi>
<mo stretchy="false">→<!-- → --></mo>
<mi>Y</mi>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle f\colon X\rightarrow Y}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./6f986e95e93b70de25a0084daf075cb02c3ccae8.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:9.68ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle f\colon X\rightarrow Y}" loading="lazy"></span> is a <i>any</i> local complete intersection morphism of schemes, its
<a href="Cotangent_complex" title="Cotangent complex">cotangent complex</a> <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle L_{X/Y}}">
<semantics>
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<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<msub>
<mi>L</mi>
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<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mo>/</mo>
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<mi>Y</mi>
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<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle L_{X/Y}}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./a637bc6665c20b6a6d9e8060d17e4e4565626613.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.171ex; width:5.291ex; height:3.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle L_{X/Y}}" loading="lazy"></span> is <a href="Perfect_complex" title="Perfect complex">perfect</a> of Tor-amplitude [-1,0].
If moreover <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>f</mi>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle f}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./132e57acb643253e7810ee9702d9581f159a1c61.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:1.279ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle f}" loading="lazy"></span> is locally of finite type and <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle Y}">
<semantics>
<mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD">
<mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
<mi>Y</mi>
</mstyle>
</mrow>
<annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle Y}</annotation>
</semantics>
</math></span><img src="./961d67d6b454b4df2301ac571808a3538b3a6d3f.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.171ex; width:1.773ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle Y}" loading="lazy"></span> locally Noetherian, then the converse is also true.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>These notions are used for instance in the <a href="Grothendieck%E2%80%93Riemann%E2%80%93Roch_theorem" title="Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch theorem">Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch theorem</a>.
</p>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Non-Noetherian_case">Non-Noetherian case</h2></div>
<p><a href="S%C3%A9minaire_de_g%C3%A9om%C3%A9trie_alg%C3%A9brique_du_Bois_Marie" class="mw-redirect" title="Séminaire de géométrie algébrique du Bois Marie">SGA 6 Exposé VII</a> uses the following slightly weaker form of the notion of a regular embedding, which agrees with the one presented above for Noetherian schemes:
</p><p>First, given a <a href="Projective_module" title="Projective module">projective module</a> <i>E</i> over a commutative ring <i>A</i>, an <i>A</i>-linear map <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle u:E\to A}">
<semantics>
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Then a closed immersion <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle X\hookrightarrow Y}">
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</math></span><img src="./a5d77a675aa10c404233db9c24ab7b9dfbcde726.svg" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:7.66ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle X\hookrightarrow Y}" loading="lazy"></span> is called <b>Koszul-regular</b> if the ideal sheaf determined by it is such that, locally, there are a finite free <i>A</i>-module <i>E</i> and a Koszul-regular surjection from <i>E</i> to the ideal sheaf.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>It is this Koszul regularity that was used in SGA 6
<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the definition of local complete intersection morphisms; it is indicated there that Koszul-regularity was intended to replace the definition given earlier in this article and that had appeared originally in the already published EGA IV.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>(This questions arises because the discussion of zero-divisors is tricky for non-Noetherian rings in that one cannot use the theory of associated primes.)
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<ul><li><a href="Regular_submanifold" class="mw-redirect" title="Regular submanifold">Regular submanifold</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSernesi2006">Sernesi 2006</a>, D. Notes 2.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSernesi2006">Sernesi 2006</a>, D.1.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSGA_61971">SGA 6 1971</a>, Exposé VIII, Definition 1.1.; <a href="#CITEREFSernesi2006">Sernesi 2006</a>, D.2.1.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFEGA_IV1967">EGA IV 1967</a>, Definition 19.3.6, p. 196</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFulton1998">Fulton 1998</a>, Appendix B.7.5.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFIllusie1971">Illusie 1971</a>, Proposition 3.2.6 , p. 209</span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSGA_61971">SGA 6 1971</a>, Exposé VII. Definition 1.1. NB: We follow the terminology of the <a href="Stacks_project" class="mw-redirect" title="Stacks project">Stacks project</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/tag/061T">[1]</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSGA_61971">SGA 6 1971</a>, Exposé VII, Definition 1.4.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSGA_61971">SGA 6 1971</a>, Exposé VIII, Definition 1.1.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFEGA_IV1967">EGA IV 1967</a>, § 16 no 9, p. 45</span>
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