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rather than polynomials; the map may fail to be defined where the rational functions have poles.

Birational maps

Rational maps

A rational map from one variety (understood to be irreducible) to another variety , written as a dashed arrow ''X'' {{fontY}}, is defined as a morphism from a nonempty open subset to . By definition of the Zariski topology

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