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The concept of dimension of a projective variety is a fairly intuitive but surprisingly delicate invariant, from an algebraic point of view.

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Bocci, C., Chiantini, L. (2019). Dimension Theory. In: An Introduction to Algebraic Statistics with Tensors. UNITEXT(), vol 118. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24624-2_11

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