Kleiman's theorem

In algebraic geometry, Kleiman's theorem, introduced by Kleiman (1974), concerns dimension and smoothness of scheme-theoretic intersection after some perturbation of factors in the intersection.

Precisely, it states:[1] given a connected algebraic group G acting transitively on an algebraic variety X over an algebraically closed field k and

morphisms of varieties, G contains a nonempty open subset such that for each g in the set, Statement 1 establishes a version of Chow's moving lemma:[2] after some perturbation of cycles on X, their intersection has expected dimension.

We write

be the composition that is

followed by the group action

σ :

be the fiber product of

; its set of closed points is We want to compute the dimension of

be the projection.

It is surjective since

acts transitively on X.

Each fiber of p is a coset of stabilizers on X and so Consider the projection

; the fiber of q over g is

and has the expected dimension unless empty.

This completes the proof of Statement 1.

For Statement 2, since G acts transitively on X and the smooth locus of X is nonempty (by characteristic zero), X itself is smooth.

Since G is smooth, each geometric fiber of p is smooth and thus

is a smooth morphism.

It follows that a general fiber of

is smooth by generic smoothness.

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