Complex algebraic variety

In algebraic geometry, a complex algebraic variety is an algebraic variety (in the scheme sense or otherwise) over the field of complex numbers.^[1]

Chow's theorem[edit]

Chow's theorem states that a projective complex analytic variety, i.e., a closed analytic subvariety of the complex projective space $\mathbb {C} \mathbf {P} ^{n}$ , is an algebraic variety. These are usually simply referred to as projective varieties.

Let $X$ be a complex algebraic variety. Then there is a projective resolution of singularities $X'\to X$ .^[2]

Despite Chow's theorem, not every complex analytic variety is a complex algebraic variety.

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